Ben’s Perspective Part 2: A Few Thoughts About Chatgpt With Ben Horowitz

Where and how will humans show the eminence of our species when AI becomes better than us at everything? I feel sort of desperate for some human-centric optimism here because the whole project of being human feels really weird as our specialness becomes automated.  

A couple of observations. First, I do think the last mile is the most difficu

ChatGPT will replace so-called knowledge workers long before robotics replace people who clean, work on oil rigs, etc.

Second is that we’ve seen all the historical forms of musical creativity get obsoleted by machines, which has mostly resulted in more human creativity. Every instrument can be played extremely well by a computer without decades of study. Somehow this hasn’t obviated the need for drummers or guitar players or violinists, but rather created a whole

We’ve recently had this big debate over whether or not college loans should be forgiven. The conversation has all been around “is it fair to burden kids with so much debt or is it fair to effectively punish the people who repaid their loans?” I think both of those are besides the point. The real issue is that the value proposition of going to coll