Tyler Cowen
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That's my suggestion.
It can do tasks and itself improves.
So O3 Pro will be out in a few weeks.
It may be out by the time you're hearing this.
I think that's obviously going to be better than just pure O3.
And then GPT-5, people have said, will be this summer.
So every few months, there are major advances.
And there's no sign of those stopping.
Well, I feel I understand the thing better than most people do for that reason.
But it's not entirely encouraging to me personally, selfishly, to be described that way.
Whether or not it's accurate, it just means I have a lot more new competition.
The AI is your smartest reader.
It's your most sympathetic reader.
It will remember what you tell it.
So I think humans should sit down and ask, what does the AI need to know?
And also, what is it that I know that's not on the historical record anywhere?
That's not just repetition, if I put it down, say, on the internet.
So there's no point in writing repetitions anymore, because the AI already knows those things.
So the value of what you'd call broadly memoir, biography, anecdote, you could say secrets, is now much higher.
And the value of repeating basic truths, which, by the way, I love as an economist, to be clear, like free trade, tariffs are usually bad.