Ian Silber: belief

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…So this begs the question, do you think AI will ever be an extremely good product designer? And it's interesting to ask you this question because on the one hand you're like, "Oh yeah, ChatGPT is going to become incredible at everything." On the other hand, it's hard for a head of design to say, "Oh, no design's going to be done by AI." I'm curious to get your take. And it sounds crazy, but engineers never thought it would be able to write code the way it is now. So just thoughts on just how good AI will get. Maybe one way to put it is I think it already is an incredible product designer. It really is actually already great. The cool thing about it though is it's accessible to every single person. And it's a tool that anybody can use. I do think it's really good. Now that doesn't necessarily mean that it's the best visual designer or best at information hierarchy or typography or even user experience and interaction design. It's not necessarily the best at any of those. It's impossible to predict where things are going. And like I said earlier, how much has changed in three years? Of course they're going to continue to get better. But the way we think about it, and I really do believe this is we're building tools to enable people to be more creative, to do more, to build more. And so it is already a great designer, but it's at your fingertips to figure out how to use it and how to get the best out of it. Where do you think human brains will continue to be most valuable as AI gets better at product design specifically? What are the remaining areas for us to be useful?…

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