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🥚 Naval Ravikant's 9 Insights about AI
from his most recent hour-long interview
Robo Nuggets
April 02, 2024
It’s very rare nowadays for Naval Ravikant to appear in podcasts and interviews, but last month the folks at Vitalia got to sit down with him for thoughts on AI.
I listened to the hour-long interview so you don’t have to - and here are the key insights with timestamps if you want to watch further.
Dig in! 🍽
In case you don’t know: Who is Naval Ravikant?
Naval Ravikant is a prominent figure in the startup ecosystem, renowned for his unique perspective not just on tech, but also philosophy. His insightful musings in podcasts and interviews are some of the best I’ve ever heard 👍🏻
1/ For the first time in history, computers are the ones learning the language of humans
Today’s AI are clearly not AGI. But the key breakthrough is natural language computing.
For the first time, instead of humans needing to learn the language of computers (i.e. coding); the computers are the ones learning the language of humans (i.e. prompting)
⏳ 7:21
2/ Natural language computing will open ‘programming’ as a skill to anyone
Programming will now become much less esoteric - something ‘coders’ can only access before can soon be accessed by anyone.
(Likely true - especially with the advent of no-code tools like FlutterFlow and BuildShip ushering the same change)
⏳ 8:21
3/ Even something as simple as the keyboard was an invention brought upon by lack of natural language processing
And Naval notes that when you have perfect text-to-speech - keyboards are gonna go away.
(Disagree with this one - can you imagine an office where everyone has to speak to their laptops to get work done?)
⏳ 8:41