Dave Messer

This is from my conversation with Demis. What I most appreciated about the conversation was how measured (and in the end optimistic) he was. He did not say we would've cured cancer before ChatGPT. He said "I thought it would be best to approach the latter stages of building [AI], which we're in now, using the scientific method -- very carefully, very precisely, very thoughtfully, and rigorously with all the best scientists, in my ideal world, collaborating on in CERN-like effort" But given we're not in that world, he said there are downsides and upsides. Downsides: - "The downside of it is, we're in this sort of ferocious commercial pressure race that everyone's sort of locked into currently." - He talks also about geopolitics here. Upsides: - "You get faster progress, obviously. The progress is just at lightning speed these days. So that's good for all the good use cases." We'd just spoken at length about health use cases. - "The second benefit is that everybody, all of the viewers out there, everyone, you're all getting to use the most cutting edge AI technology, perhaps only three to six months behind what is actually in the labs. So that's kind of mind blowing." - "It's democratizing AI. It's giving everyone a feeling for what it's like to interact with cutting edge AI and what it can do and what it can't do" - "I think that's good for society to start normalizing itself to what is going to be an enormous change with this technology coming. So it's probably better that we get to sample that in incremental steps rather than it's just a shock to the system." - Mass feedback "is really important for building more robust systems and better systems." My impression in this HUGE* Conversation was that he has real concerns about the way AI is being built, has a vision for a better way, and is in the end an optimist about what we can do together.

NotebookLM shipped a new learning superpower this week, quietly: Tailored worksheet lessons I took a photo of a 4th grade completed worksheet with the new NotebookLM App camera and then made a custom Slide Deck: "Create a lesson that addresses each weakness in the students worksheet answers. do it in the style of minecraft". The results are just incredible. here are some samples - spot the easter egg feature :) I think this technique - "photo of worksheet, make me a lesson to help me understand it" has much promise, and I love how NLM brings the worksheet photo into the slides, crops in and things. woah! Would love to see if folks find it useful!

Upload a meeting transcript to NotebookLM and get it to turn it into a slide deck using Nano Banana Pro. Absolutely insane.

Flashcards and Quizzes are officially rolling out TODAY on the mobile app! You can customize the number of questions, difficulty, and topics all from the convenience of your phone. Because being a busy, popular socialite should never get in the way of your studies 😎