AI: The Decade-Long Platform Shift Unfolding Now
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People Mentioned
- Sam Altman - Referenced as someone whose continuous work on AI makes it difficult to finalize presentations about the rapidly changing field.
- Douglas Adams - Quoted for his observations on how people perceive technology at different ages and about a character who spends a year dead for tax purposes.
- Shane Parrish (Host of Farnam Street podcast) - Mentioned as the person who asked a controversial question about AI's significance, leading to many comments.
- Morgan Bender - Mentioned for his work on a report about whether tech was in a bubble around 2016-2017.
- Balzac - Quoted for saying, "How lucky we are to have the young because they know everything."
- Steve Jobs - Quoted for his line that "people don't know what they want until you show it to them."
Organizations & Institutions
- Slush - A tech event in Helsinki where the speaker plans to present his AI insights.
- KKR - A private equity firm where someone coined the term "braggawatt."
- Microsoft - Mentioned as a company providing AI presentations and having a classic 1990s ecosystem stack.
- Google - Mentioned as a company providing AI presentations, competing in the AI space, and involved in advertising platforms.
- Bain, BCG, McKinsey - Consulting firms mentioned as giving AI presentations to large companies.
- OpenAI - Mentioned as a key player in the AI space, giving presentations, and discussing future AI assistant capabilities.
- Accenture - Mentioned as a company giving AI presentations.
- IBM - Referencing the historical context of the IBM PC's impact on the personal computing market.
- Oracle - Mentioned in the context of enterprise software and database solutions.
- TSMC - Mentioned as the sole company producing advanced chips, illustrating how capital-intensive industries consolidate.
- Facebook - Mentioned in the context of network effects and social media as a commodity.
- Amazon - Mentioned as a major e-commerce player, an advertising platform, and in the context of a thought experiment about product suggestions.
- Meta - Mentioned as funding AI infrastructure and for its advertising platforms.
- Shopify - Mentioned as a company whose CEO once made AI usage an HR requirement.
- NationBuilder - A company the speaker worked for, described as a CMS and a database.
- Hulu - Mentioned as a streaming service that launched around 2007, illustrating the time it took for video streaming to become viable.
Websites & Online Resources
- Farnam Street - A podcast where the speaker discussed his controversial opinion on AI.
- YouTube - Mentioned as a platform that emerged a decade after early mobile internet, illustrating the time it took for video streaming to become viable.
- XKCD - Referenced for a joke about the proliferation of standards.
Other Resources
- AI Eats the World - The running title of the speaker's presentation, evolving from his earlier "Mobile Eats the World."
- Information Superhighway - An early 1990s phrase for the internet, emphasizing uncertainty about its future form.
- General Magic - A company that attempted to create an "iPhone" in 1994, illustrating the concept of being "early but wrong."
- Neo Humanoid Robot - Mentioned as a current example of technology that might be too early, similar to General Magic.
- RealPlayer - A late 1990s streaming media player, used as an example of technology that was early but limited by bandwidth.
- US Government Report on Automation from 1955 - Referenced for its discussion of "electronically controlled elevators," highlighting historical patterns of automation.