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Shawn Wang: belief

25 Oct 2024 Latent Space How NotebookLM Was Made

“I'm trying to figure out what you nailed compared to others. And I think that the way that you treat your, the AI is like a little bit different than a lot of the builders I talked to.”

— Shawn Wang

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Shawn Wang
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
25 Oct 2024
Publisher
Latent Space

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…Maybe. I'm just, I'm just like, yeah, it's really interesting. You know what? I'm trying to figure out what you nailed compared to others. And I think that the way that you treat your, the AI is like a little bit different than a lot of the builders I talked to. So I don't know what it is. You said, I wish I had a transcript right in front of me, but it's something like people treat AI as like a tool for thought, but usually it's kind of doing their bidding and you know, what you're really doing is loading up these like two virtual agents. I don't, you've never said the word agents. I put that in your mouth, but two virtual humans or AIs and letting them from the, from their own opinion and letting them kind of just live and embody it a little bit. Is that accurate? I think that that is as close to accurate as possible. I mean, in general, I try to be careful about saying like, oh, you know, letting, you know, yeah, like these, these personas live. But I think to your earlier question of like, what makes it interesting? That's what it takes to make it interesting. Yeah. Right. And I think to do it well is like a worthy challenge. I also think that it's interesting because they're interested, right? Like, is it interesting to compare? Yeah. Is it, is it interesting to have two retirement plans? No, but to listen to these two talk about it. Oh my gosh. You'd think it was like the best thing ever invented, right? It's like, get this, deep dive into 401k through Chase versus, you know, whatever.…

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