All right, so I am here with James Schreib. All right, James. What do you do for the company? I'm head of writing
Do I get to hold this at any point? Do I have to keep leaning in? Yeah. Yeah, I'm
I'm just gonna I'll come in closer. I'll come in closer. All right
All right, is it close enough? Yes, excellent. All right. Look at this bell guy
Cloth All right, so about sorry. Sorry, so James
I'm just asking, you know, everyone in the company what their thoughts on AI is and
Ask you the first question, which is what's your thought in the current state of AI?
Current state of AI is I
Think a lot of fantasy stuff going on. It's people getting very excited about what's going to be in the future
Well, it's actually the capabilities. They are still a bit limited. However, they're
They're crazy. You were two years ago or three years ago like the transformational especially the AI art space like that's already
pretty damn good And pretty damn disruptive and scary
But there's headlines all the time like chat GPT gets 50% of engineering questions wrong or like, you know
It's not reliable yet. There's too many hallucinations
But that's not to say it's not useful. It's helping people learn code is helping people code faster write faster send emails faster
So if it never improves beyond what we have today, it's still useful if it does improve
It's both terrifying and very exciting
So are you do you think you're more for it or for or against it or?
I'm not really for slowing down technology ever
There need to be guardrails regulations There's some things that are just so truly scary though that I don't know how we're gonna cope as a society as like a just a little
Monkey brain society who just loves outrage and just takes things at face value and just doesn't read you on the headlines
I have no idea how we're gonna deal with deep fakes a generative
political videos There's no I don't like the idea of a post-truth world
there's already countries that live in post-truth media landscapes and
Since 2016 the West is getting more and more like that and that is just a dangerous and toxic world to live in and I
Figure that a lot of it generative AI just sends us beating down that canyon
Which is very scary But on the other hand
There's lots of things to be excited about
I just remember the movie her and just like how it's gonna be eventually. I'll be normalized to have AI
Romantic relationships. It's like some of the stuff is really scary inside a fertility rates are already dropped. We've been dropping for 50 years
I don't know. We might just not survive
Fair enough. Okay, so then in the case we do survive
Are you worried about your job because I feel like a lot of people who talk about AI say that the first thing job is gonna
Go as writers, right? And is that something that you worry about or is that something like you think it's like all just like
There's people like just talking or something that or I think that
Creative industries definitely are at risk. I think it's gonna be similar to other industries like perhaps the effects where
You've got There's humans still doing the job, but there's fewer of them because the human is doing it can do so much faster now
But I think we're gonna see things change and adapt. I think we're gonna see a lot more like identity driven personality driven
content like influencers Like Linus who you love and have a parasocial relationship with that's gonna just become even more of a thing
Because in a couple of years the majority of the content on the internet is going to be from AI and you're not even going to know
That it's from AI and we're gonna have to figure out identity online and whether that's a blockchain thing or some kind of centralized
I don't know identity system
Blue check marks We're gonna have to figure out a way to know like oh actual humans said that not just a very convincing bot with a political agenda
So I think we would probably just see a switch in culture about like who we listen to
And what we find entertaining stuff and by the way, we're going to listen to and find entertaining
Bots vTubers that we know are artificial. We're still gonna like them even though they're artificial
I don't know for oh, yeah, will my job be a risk if I was in high school right now
I would be I'd be doing trades for sure I could I'd be like, oh, yeah
Carpenter in a welding like well, I don't even know welding but
Something the robots are 15 years behind the AI is right now
I think so some something practical that you can help with would definitely be a little more secure than a purely creative job
But I'm hoping that as they I get sufficiently advanced then we'll have some kind of universal bit basic income and all work less
although I'm not optimistic that this will happen because you know
certain certain political persuasion that seem to be winning for the last 10 years and it's really
society is getting very stratified and Billionaires are gobbling up more and more. There doesn't seem to be any kind of thrust for anti-trust or breaking up
Oligopolis in the United States That's why all the companies are getting bigger
All the little players getting pushed out the middle class is shrinking and they're just gobbling up the money
So I don't really the government's just sitting on their ass
So I really think that the odds are there'll be just a few more billionaires and a billion more
People in poverty that have a great AR All right, but then have you used AI before like any like tap GPT mid-journey?
I think that have you tried it like it then like a thing like that or did you just say cat GPT?
That's a check cat. I don't know that's gotta exist I'm I've dabbled less than I'd like to I really wish I could say it's been my hobby for last eight months on Friday nights to have a
Glass of scotch and mess around with chat GPT. I've very I've used it very seldom. I've used it to like
Convert things instead of it doing text to call them in Excel because that's annoying
I just tell me tell me all the weeks in the year and remove this it's sometimes fast
But actually I've been using chat GPT at home quite a bit. Um, it's great for like meal planning
It's great for when you have a very specific question that the internet like you just know sometimes you Google something
You're like, please someone has to have asked this question online I hope there's a form thread about my specific case, but there often isn't so it's really nice to just be able to ask like
Hey in the region I live in does the electrical code require that in an attic this?
You know like just something really specific or something's more general to like if I'm shopping for of
Smoker, what are the five things to look for and they'll tell you like, you know
The dimensions of quality that are important for that product that you know nothing about it's great to get like a quick lay of the land
Yeah, no, I use it for like like sort of example
Like I want to look up a diet for like my for someone my age my height and my weight
And that and it's like tells me oh you should do this or like if I won't do a workout
And I was like, oh, what's the best workouts for like this muscle group and will give me like a good list or stuff
So yeah, I've been using for that. But yeah, I like it using like a alternative Google
I guess this is interesting. I have a friend who works at a large
Company in the dating app space and they told me they are working on
Basically a matchmaker based on an LLM So instead of you just like swiping and swiping and swiping you just tell it like I'm looking for someone who does this and this and this
And you know about all these things about me So this this AI will know a lot about each user and what each user wants and be able to match them that way
It's like that actually sounds like clutch if it if that was designed properly. It could make dating very efficient
Yeah, yeah, because most people what I wanted my date efficiency in my love life
You need this now. Oh, I need this now
Because it's like, you know, people just like this, you know, that's that's the AI currently in the dating space
That was me in college All right, so then as a tech company that we are a kind of tech company slash entertainment company or slash creative
I guess do you think that we should be using AI and at any level or do you think we should like just not be using it because it's like
kind of standing come protecting our jobs anything about or
Yeah, we're not in like a union field. So like that job security solidarity thing
I don't think makes sense for us. I think basically every organization should be using
Whatever new tools come to light. I mean if it's for
Transcribing meetings summarizing a meeting that you missed
Making emails. I know that some creators are using it for a community posts like
Just hey, can you make a community post that advertises this giveaway that we're gonna do and say make this point this fit this point
And it just maybe that's not their forte They're an engineer and they're great a great maker
But they're not great at word crafting some things if they can allow your team to be smaller and increase your output
Yeah, you should be using that you should be using it to make your emails more polite or like
If you're on the support team, you should be using it to make templates for you or reply with boilerplate
Yeah, every organization should be using it's it's like asking us like should you guys be on the internet, you know
Like oh you guys you're you're a book publishing company. Obviously you love type writing
Should you guys get on the internet and like yes?
Always adopting technology Okay, so is there anything else you want to mention to the float planers?
Like yeah, I'm I'm calling a new term. It's people who subscribe to total plane full planers. They're called flow plane
That's not even a new term. Is it float planers? I don't know is it not
I tried to like, you know how there's like
Believers and there's like little monsters or Lady Gaga fans all these things
I tried to get a name like that for like LMG fans
No lines was not into it. I couldn't think of a good name like tech tippers
Techies or like even even our us the staff like Googlers. We don't have like a staff name either
I don't know. Let us know the comments. Oh you got some ideas
There's a chat with LMG partners and it's called LMG Fs
LMG Fs, that's pretty good. That's pretty good. No, I'm holding the mic. All right. I'm getting out of here. Thank you
All right. All right. Bye. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, sorry
Is anything you want to mention say anything that we didn't make topic-wise we didn't maybe cover or I
Mean it's such a vast topic like What is it?
Excited for it nervous for it think it's I think like that. Yeah. Yeah, generally excited Jen. Generally excited. Um, I
Don't yeah This is cut this out
No, this is uncut version All right, we'll cut it there. Thank you very much. Bye flow planers James leave him, but I'm gonna keep waving. I'm committed a bit
Bye