Sam Altman's Take on AI Hype vs. Reality
"Adopt AI, especially internally. Use AI to build better products, but don't assume that the entire socioeconomic system completely reconfigures. I think the world has gotten a little bit delusional about this." — @sama
Sam Altman: AI Crosses Thresholds Where Suddenly It Just Works
"The models just crossed some threshold. The latest one with the update we just shipped to Codex — this has been one of my sit back moments of, like, something big is happening here." — @sama
Sam Altman on Chain-of-Thought Explainability: Promising but Not Enough
"It's fragile… I can still imagine all sorts of ways where things go wrong and where the models can deceive us." — Sam Altman
Completely agree. If only big firms can afford proper AI, we've rather missed the point. The real shift is when smaller firms can actually deploy it, not just talk about it.
Sam Altman: Let's Keep AI From Being a Rich-People-Only Tool
"I think we should work to make intelligence as cheap and abundant and broadly accessible as possible." — #sama
Sam Altman on AI vs. Human Connection
"I'm not excited to build a world where people replace their human interactions with an AI. I'm excited to build a world where people use an AI for lots of other things to have much more time for human interactions." — @sama
Joe Lonsdale: Working Class Could Be 4-5x Wealthier in Thirty Years
"The last time productivity went up a lot over thirty years, the median working class person was 2.4 times wealthier. I think it's going to be more than that." — Joe Lonsdale
AI Won't Kill Software Engineering Jobs — It Hands You a Bulldozer
"You've been digging a basement with a shovel, and somebody's about to hand you a bulldozer. You should be so happy." — on AI & the future of work
Tobi Lütke: AI Should Do Absolutely Everything Else
"If you show up with a product, you can start a business. AI should do absolutely everything else." — @tobi
Tobi Lütke on Giving Shopify a Head Start on AI
"It's not our customer's job to tell us what they need. It's our customer's job to tell us what the problems are — and it's our job to figure out what the ideal way is." — @tobi
Joe Lonsdale: AI Is a Young Person's Game Right Now
"You need a lot of young people on your team who are friends with the other young people who are the best programmers. It's going so young now." — @JoeLonsdale
Sam Altman: The Agent Web Is Coming
"A huge percentage of web traffic is gonna be agents. The number of human searches has stayed constant — agent searches have gone up by a thousand." — @sama
Tobi Lütke: AI Means Small Business Owners Should "Sign Up for More"
"What should AI mean if you're a small business owner? I think you should sign up for more. You can follow your ambition further." — @tobi
Joe Lonsdale: Rethink Everything From First Principles Right Now
"You do need to rethink from first principles, almost everything right now. And by the way, every few months, because it's changing every few months." — #joelonsdale
Toby Lütke: AI Makes Everyone a 7 Out of 10 on Every Skill
"Everyone is a seven out of 10 on every skill now. So that's really, really helpful because it allows to make teams smaller." — #tobi
Palantir Figured Out the AI Playbook Before Anyone Else
"The stuff that we figured out at Palantir turned out to be relevant to a ton of other AI companies. The center of the AI world in terms of what's working in many ways was right around Palantir." — @joelonsdale
Kids Using AI Differently Than Adults Ever Imagined
"When you see children interact with things like AI, they will use it so different from how you imagine." — @tobi