Back to episode — Episode 2981 CWSA 10/07/25
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. You're really just talking about God. You're just using different words. So I always just get dismissed. So that's where credibility is your superpower. Elon has it on this topic and others and I don't have it on this topic. Well, OpenAI is announcing that ChatGPT, their app, will now work with some other existing apps. So I think that means it would act like the user interface for other apps.…
← Previous segment →ople are going to open up Booking.com after that? Nobody. They're going to open OpenAI and then OpenAI can do stuff like put their own advertisement in it and then Booking.com will be like, "Hey, this is our app. We're the ones who should be doing advertising." And OpenAI will say, "No, we're sending them to your app." But after they see the advertisement.
So what I'm suggesting is that these small app companies, well they're not that small, are very quickly going to learn that AI is eating their lunch and there's no way back. There's no way back. AI will absorb all these apps.
Anyway, so that's what's happened. Step one: become the user interface. Step two: replace the apps themselves. Inevitable.
According to Max Rigger who's writing for The Hill, there's a new Senate report that says that 100 million jobs will be lost to AI and automation. Is that a lot? 100 million? Well if it were all in the United States it would be every employee, wouldn't it? Isn't that right? I don't think there are 100 million people who even work. It's maybe one out of three people work. That would be everybody.
So I assume the 100 million is across the world, which wouldn't be that much. 100 million in the United States would be the end of everything, but 100 million across the world, well maybe you wouldn't even notice it that much.
But what else they say? So the types of jobs they think are going to go away would be fast food and anybody who works at a counter probably. And customer service reps, laborers and freight stock and material movers, secretaries. There's still secretaries? What business has a secretary? When was the last time you even saw or heard of a secretary? I don't even think they exist. Do they? Secretaries. Maybe. Maybe for CEOs.
And let's see. Also executive assistants. There's no way that AI is going to replace an executive assistant. That's not going to happen. So I think most of these estimates are totally overblown.
I'm going with the people who say, well, it's probably just going to make all those existing people a little more efficient. It probably isn't going to replace them becau
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se there's so much of a problem with hallucinations. Can you imagine a customer service rep being AI and then just hallucinating every time the customer asks it a question and the customer would just get more and more mad? You can't have a customer service rep with this form of AI. And we've not invented another form. There's only one form of AI as far as I know. I mean one that you could use in…
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