David Rosenthal: belief

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…Yeah. The LLMs are unbelievably good at writing and helping you write code. I’m a huge believer in that use case. Then I think there’s the slightly more speculative stuff, but you can actually see it now, of like that gaming demo that I mentioned recently from Nvidia, of like, oh you’re talking to a non playable character that wasn’t scripted. We did an ACQ2 episode recently with Chris Valenzuela from the CEO of Runway. That was used in everything everywhere all at once, and he said that’s just the tip of the iceberg. The stuff that you can do, that is happening, that’s out there today with generative AI in these domains, is astounding. I think what you’re saying is one could be a bear on your own experience. Every time you try to use a generative AI application, it doesn’t fit into your workflow. You don’t find it useful, you’re not sticky. But on the other hand, actually what AI will be is a sum of a whole bunch of niches. There’s a video game market, there’s a writing market, there’s a creative writing market, there’s a software developer market, there’s a marketing copy market. There are a million of these things and you just may happen to not fall into one of the first few niches of it.…

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