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Bret Taylor

@bret-taylor · 12 positions · 0 changes of mind

Co-founder and chief executive of Sierra, chairman of the board of OpenAI, and formerly co-chief executive of Salesforce and chief technology officer of Facebook.

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  1. Our reading

    Each new technology is adopted faster than the last only because it rides on the infrastructure the previous wave built.

    Their wordsSo when you make something like chat GPT, you can go from to zero to 100 million users faster than any technology in history because of the other technologies though. like you couldn't have gotten there if not for the build out of the internet, if not for the smartphone.
    spoken · machine transcript hear it at 0:07:17 · all korrents from this recording

    ↗How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor) [ACQ2]youtube.com 1st of 22 in this recording

    infrastructure

    Interesting

  3. Our reading

    Almost all of the dot-com era's exuberance turned out to be warranted; we remember the failures and forget the value that era created.

    Their wordsIf you look at the S&P 500 now and you look at the amount of value from companies created in that, one could argue that actually almost all of the exuberance and hype was totally warranted and it in fact did change commerce in fundamental ways.
    spoken · machine transcript hear it at 0:10:14 · all korrents from this recording

    ↗How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor) [ACQ2]youtube.com 2nd of 22 in this recording

    Interesting

  5. Our reading

    Software engineering is the job most exposed to automation by this generation of technology, and the people building it are disrupting their own profession.

    Their wordsif you tell what what jobs are most likely to be automated with the current generation of technology, you would probably put software engineering right at the top. The people building this technology or building the technology that is disrupting their own profession.
    spoken · machine transcript hear it at 0:21:43 · all korrents from this recording

    ↗How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor) [ACQ2]youtube.com 5th of 22 in this recording

    Interesting

  7. Our reading

    Turning expertise into a commodity is democratising, because access to medical, legal and mental-health advice has always tracked wealth.

    Their wordsI just think about like really simple things like access to mental health care, access to education, access to medical advice, access to legal advice. We're essentially taking expertise and making it a commodity. And I think that will is generally democratizing.
    spoken · machine transcript hear it at 0:22:40 · all korrents from this recording

    ↗How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor) [ACQ2]youtube.com 6th of 22 in this recording

    Interesting

  9. Our reading

    Even generalised superintelligence will change society more slowly than the AGI community expects, because intelligence is not the only rate limiter.

    Their wordsI don't think all parts of the economy can absorb intelligence equally. So let's just say we develop fairly generalized super intelligence. I always use the analogy like you can invent a lot of drugs, but if clinical trials still take a long time, you're not necessarily going to get new therapies rapidly.
    spoken · machine transcript hear it at 0:24:04 · all korrents from this recording

    ↗How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor) [ACQ2]youtube.com 7th of 22 in this recording

    AGIAI alignment

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  11. Our reading

    When an AI writes bad code the thing to fix is the context it was given, not the code, because fixing the output adds no leverage.

    Their wordsif it produces incorrect code our philosophy is don't fix the code fix the context that cursor had that produced the bad code
    spoken · machine transcript hear it at 0:27:04 · all korrents from this recording

    ↗How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor) [ACQ2]youtube.com 9th of 22 in this recording

    Interesting

  13. Our reading

    An applied AI company should not train its own foundation model, because a foundation model is the fastest deteriorating asset there is.

    Their wordsI mean I've heard from multiple investors that foundation models are the fastest deteriorating asset of all time. And so if step one of your business is to burn through tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars of capital before you find product market fit and that asset has value for like a a week, I'm not sure it's like a great business model.
    spoken · machine transcript hear it at 0:30:44 · all korrents from this recording

    ↗How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor) [ACQ2]youtube.com 10th of 22 in this recording

    Interesting

  15. Our reading

    There will be no single best model but a market of them, the way the database market split into analytics stores and transactional stores.

    Their wordsAnd actually the reason I think it's exciting is if you look at like the database space right now there's not one database. If you want to do largecale data analytics you'll choose one thing. If you want to do a transactional data store you'll do another. I think we're moving to that area of models
    spoken · machine transcript hear it at 0:32:52 · all korrents from this recording

    ↗How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor) [ACQ2]youtube.com 11th of 22 in this recording

    Interesting

  17. Our reading

    The frontier-model layer has to consolidate to a few players, because only a tax collected from everyone building on top pays back pre-training and post-training.

    Their wordsit has to be consolidated because to basically make the money back on the pre-training and post-training process you need relatively few players that are collecting taxes you know from all the players on top or you just can't make the the math work.
    spoken · machine transcript hear it at 0:34:15 · all korrents from this recording

    ↗How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor) [ACQ2]youtube.com 12th of 22 in this recording

    scaling laws

    Interesting

  19. Our reading

    The half-life of a technology company is short, and the few that last decades are the exception rather than the rule.

    Their wordsI think it's important to zoom out. The halflife of technology companies is not that long. There are a few, but they're the exception.
    spoken · machine transcript hear it at 0:37:39 · all korrents from this recording

    ↗How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor) [ACQ2]youtube.com 13th of 22 in this recording

    Interesting

  21. Our reading

    Buyers default to buying from platforms until a new technology arrives, which swings them to best-of-breed because incumbents are bad at what is new.

    Their wordsWhen new technologies come out, this pendulum swings from best of platform towards best of breed. And the reason for that is incumbents typically aren't that great at these new technologies.
    spoken · machine transcript hear it at 0:53:46 · all korrents from this recording

    ↗How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor) [ACQ2]youtube.com 17th of 22 in this recording

    Interesting

  23. Our reading

    A software engineer who is not using a tool like Cursor is working at half productivity or worse.

    Their wordsit's like if you're a software engineer and you're not using something like cursor to do your job, you're probably being half as productive or even worse than you could be.
    spoken · machine transcript hear it at 1:00:11 · all korrents from this recording

    ↗How is AI Different Than Other Technology Waves? (With Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor) [ACQ2]youtube.com 22nd of 22 in this recording

    Interesting