"look there are people who know a lot about AI but they don't know anything about writing and there's people who know a lot about writing but they don't know anything about Ai and Tyler Cowan is one of..."

"every day in order to advance your skills like how are you actually learning about it most of all I use AI when I read things so I use it as the secondary literature so I'm preparing a podcast for a B..."

"analysis but mostly I'm doing it because for me it's fun and a pleasure to learn what are the puzzles that's an interesting question tell me about that well Shakespeare's full of puzzles right Camille..."

"can reread it in infinite number of times so it's very well suited for having a guide or companion who can talk you through it and uh the major large language models they've all read Shakespeare itis ..."

"in terms of hallucinations but it should definitely be in your repertoire so to speak now if 01 Pro on average it takes me two to four minutes to get an answer so do you have multiple 01 Pros open at ..."

"for an 01 Pro answer at that time okay so what I've noticed is a lot of people think that hallucinations are a major issue and you're like they're actually not that big of a deal especially in the con..."

"find things that need to be changed you said on page 172 was on page 173 that happens so that's one issue uh when you do podcasts and you're the interviewer again you're not giving the answers you jus..."

"homogenizing thought but also the potential to really get out into wild and wacky places I never ask the AI what question should I ask person X it's quite dull and Bland if you do that it's too Normy ..."

"will and that will be an out of left field question okay so writing with AI are you using it to frame ideas or where are you using it in the writing process I don't directly use AI for writing typical..."

"me also a lot of the sources I write for wouldn't let me uh I agree with that decision on their part but even if they would let me I wouldn't do it there's ways you can use AI that will smooth out you..."

"work better but I want it to stay weird I will use it to fact check things in areas I don't know wouldn't say I don't use it at all uh there was one use where uh Agnes card a while ago suggested this ..."

"my time to learn and have it complement that learning and if you do that and keep on whacking it with queries and facts and questions and interpretations you'll come away much more impressed than if y..."

"the way like for humans there's a republic of science way smarter than Newton or Einstein or anyone scientist uh we're evolving toward that we don't have it yet but you're using AIS to bounce things o..."

"just a huge thing yeah and most people aren't even at level one and if we take things like reinforcement learning synthetic data stuff like that how important is the technical understanding of those t..."

"to that so the world I've lived in has not changed that much since I was born but that's about to change you could say it's changed already but it's not fully instantiated in most of the things we do ..."

"than human Memoirs on average you've mentioned deep seek twice how is the the shape or personality of deep seek different from the others deep seek is from China as many of you know it is less manipul..."

"it's due to improve right as they say this the worst will ever be the second level of of the lesson yeah exactly so how does all this influence what you're choosing to to write like should you write b..."

"have written they're now obsolete I I feel I'm wise enough to recognize that and I'm not going to write less but I'm going to do more of this super highfrequency writing much of it about AI with the m..."

"writing as much as I can uh but I'm not going to get sentimental about it you know I'm very willing to be coldblooded and just say nope Tyler when it comes to that you're obsolete when it comes to ans..."

"fake Tyler looks just like me and that seems to me two years away the fake Tyler Voice already is indistinguishable for me I just did a a video where I said something wrong in the video and we were li..."

"Lex cuz I get instant feedback if I get stuck I can ask it to interview me I can say hey this is all the writing I've done this is sort of a context of how I like to write and a little bit about what ..."

"kind of his filler so when someone goes to their AI three years from now oh I'd like to read a Tyler Cowen biography that's in there so I'm thinking through I think it's maybe only 20 blog posts it's ..."

"Advantage for me that I'm not a technical person in the AI field so an example I wrote a book it came out now 11 years ago it's called average is over and it says the future will be this age of incred..."

"actually good for and not am I impressed by all the neat bells and whistles on this Advance with AI but you've got to be super practical in how you address it don't spend too much time on the abstract..."

"status and those disruptions can go very badly uh and that worries me uh it's not a thing you can just manage the way like you manage a small company so humanity is faced with that we're faced with so..."

"source and I'm worth referencing and all that but tactically does the writing style or the substance of what you produce does it change at all it changes a bit so I like to think the AI will have a be..."

"this for fun and it's so cheap to do the final mile on that like write those two blog posts about Fall River and what the name of our dog was and what I thought of our neighbors and why there were so ..."

"of the things that you haven't spoken about that has been fundamental for me in terms of using the AIS is visualizing information so I was in Buenos CIS and I wanted to get a sense of the immigration ..."

"DC and I struggle to kind of understand the the the cultural Vibe of this place like what do people do all day what are the kinds of people here uh I find DC to be like this strange city that I I don'..."

"question I think AI can help you quite a bit but you'll need a very sophisticated wellth thought out prompt I use it in a much kind of stupider way so I took a trip with my sister to Northern Colombia..."

"like hey what's this help you walk by a building when was it built snap a photo ask it it knows but planning an itinerary so I will likely be in Northern Ghana in August and I asked it there's two pla..."

"in super smart prompts I might add a sentence or two saying like Oh I'm a serious consumer of food I want something that you know a top rated food critic might recommend but like very simple ads to th..."

"they already do 100% tell me about AI in the classroom how are you using it and what are your students not understanding from my PhD class that I mentioned before there is no assigned textbook that sa..."

"want you to tell me what you did in part because I want to learn from what they did right so uh I've done this in the past I had a law class the year before where they had three papers uh this was les..."

"needs to change more oral exams you know Proctor in person exams and so on uh we need to change that now it's very striking from all the questions that I've asked you then just the on line takeaway fr..."

"I use AI is to study the Bible which is sort of my big intellectual project I think it's great for the Bible it is so good it is so good and first of all that's the will of God right it's the will of ..."

"where it still is lacking is if I speak to somebody who really knows it well themselves their ability to ask the one question that really matters the one take away um is completely completely Next Lev..."

"very quickly or readily that could be good for your mentorship book as well because that is what a mentor can provide is unique uh what do you say it's context Secrets humans know Secrets uh maybe AIS..."

"practically potent it's another part of this new structure we're not ready for okay we got to talk more about this how good are you with Secrets right are you good at trading Secrets if you are you're..."

"do exactly the opposite that's right and if you want to get things done you'll need to mobilize resources the AI per se can't lend you money not yet at least and you need humans whether it's a venture..."

"challenging and do you feel it's becoming more important or less important oh that oscillates very rapidly I would say with deep research it's become much much more important yeah because you you need..."

"they're good advice for virtually everyone they don't require you to know much about the person those are my two Universal pieces of advice that I give pretty much all the time and how much do you fee..."

"networks you got to both so there is more of a burden on you and it's less formulaic so what you used to do oh I'm an undergrad at Yale I want to go to McKenzie there were all these set paths that wer..."

"matters and I would just say give it some thought how is the Phantom AI also shaping your life too homogenizing why do you say that if you just ask AI simple questions like improve my writing or what ..."

"answer here you know there's not something at stake we're writing a report or column where everything has to be perfectly correct you just want to hear an opinion Let's go ask China boss and that's de..."

"saying it's all you should use you should use more and experiment with more to learn things but I use o1 Pro the most deep research which is kind of an offshoot it's a feature of o1 pro that actually ..."

"you're sending things to China my view is China knows a lot about me already I'm not at all nervous about that but like don't you know if you work for the military the CIA talk to some people give it ..."

"Gemini is there's some ways in which its multimodal capabilities and its ability to handle big thick files it's number one the fact that Google owns YouTube makes it really nice because the YouTube in..."

"minutes and it will send you to some articles and another thing I do it's $400 a year but worth it for me I subscribe to information which keeps a breast of new AI developments I don't think it's wort..."