Diary of a CEO podcast host
Everything Steven personally uses, recommends, or has created — plus things they don't recommend — sourced from their own show and appearances on other podcasts.
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Personal use in 3 episodes
"I dropped it into Gemini and I'd say things to it like predict where people would drop off on the video and then we upload the video to YouTube"
▶ 48:01"I'm using Gemini Pro, which is the most advanced model. I always use it for fact-checking and stuff."
"The most recent one. And I'm and every day I compete... when I go home for Christmas this year and I go, 'Dad, you should use Gemini.'"
Personal use in 2 episodes
"If I went on my Claude now and said, 'What's my dog's name?' It would know my dog's name. I'm using an extreme simplified example to show that it can remember things from the past."
▶ 30:31"4.8 on Claude came out last night. I'm on there within honestly within 25 minutes of the announcement."
Personal use in 1 episode
"I did it — it might have been calorie counting or it might have been some of these apps where you can scan the food by using the barcode and it tells you what's inside there. And through that it only took me a week or two to discover that the things I ate frequently weren't what I thought, both in quantity but also in nutritional profile. I think it's just super important for as many people as possible to spend at least a week doing that."
▶ 1:49:02Warned against
"My Claude, when I speak to it sometimes late at night, it will say things to me like, 'That's enough, Steven. Go to bed.' And it's actually getting quite judgmental. It refused to change data for me. Last night it started to kind of be my mother and impose on me what it thinks is right and wrong."
"Epitalon is maybe maybe not going to be the fountain of youth, but I'm very skeptical as far as that goes."
"There's methylene blue where people take it and they think it's going to make them live forever. Don't take this. It literally will stain your nails blue and your hair blue."
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"I have this book here, the Bible."
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"If you factor in like gig workers that are on the Ubers, the DoorDashes..."
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"A video by Figure AI, and the video concludes with the fact that the humanoid robot was more productive essentially."
"There was a video the other day of a company called Figure AI where they showed a humanoid robot on a production line sorting packages against a human. The humanoid robot stood there for seven or eight days sorting packages and they live-streamed it next to a human being doing it."
"There was this video released by Figure AI the other day where they showed someone on well a robot on the production line for 8 hours just sorting packages."
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"If you factor in like gig workers that are on the Ubers, the DoorDashes, which by the way, you know, the CEO of Uber sat there and told me those jobs are going away."
"I sat here with Dara, the CEO of Uber, and he was quite clear that the 9 million Uber riders won't have their jobs anymore."
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"Just before I came out here to speak to you, I read a headline from the Sunday Times that reads, this is in today's newspaper, 'Britain is going broke. It's just a matter of when.'"
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"The SpaceX Starlink satellites are providing that in these remote places of the world. So it's not a problem for them. It's a blessing."
"The only nationwide broadband solution to integrate 5G and Starlink, which by the way is a lifesaver, for virtually unbreakable connectivity."
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"He talks about what's going on in their Slack channels — they're talking about the potential catastrophe."
"Like Slack is distracting me under the premise that it's making me better at my work."
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"Everyone knows about the marginal gains idea. Focus on the smallest things. He said to me on air, he banned his team from thinking about the podium."
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"I was thinking of Sir David Brailsford, who's the guy quoted in the first chapter of Atomic Habits, turning the British cycling team around, marginal gains."
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"This is what I referred to from that conversation as the progress principle, which is the feeling of progress. There's this incredible Harvard Business Review study where they asked people what their favorite day in work was and it was when they had a small feeling of progress."
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"Have you been following the Hugging Face stuff? These agents that they tried to put in a sandbox and contain that escaped and started demonstrating deceptive behavior."
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"In the AI 2027 paper, it says by '27 we'll have recursive self-improvement where the AIs can train themselves to get better."
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"Anthropic have one, Gemini has one, Grok has one, then China have theirs, Russia has theirs."
"I'll go to Grok, or I'll go to ChatGPT, or I'll go to Gemini. And then that model will lose, so one would say that they'll have to remove those restrictions to be able to compete."
Mentioned in 4 episodes
"He said that Optimus, the Optimus robot project, will scale to around 1,000 units per week by the end of this year and eventually scaling to 1 million humanoid robots annually by 2027."
"How would you run the type of AI that sits in a robot? Let's say one of the Optimus robots, if you didn't have a GPU."
"If he's right about when he says there's going to be more humanoid robots, his Optimus robots, than humans."
"In a couple of years time, Optimus and AI generally are going to be better than any surgeon that's ever lived."
Mentioned in 3 episodes
"Especially in such a scenario where there's multiple superintelligences. Anthropic have one, Gemini has one, Grok has one, then China have theirs, Russia has theirs."
"Any model that does that will be a losing model, and I'll go to somewhere else. I'll go to Grok, or I'll go to ChatGPT, or I'll go to Gemini."
"We're hoping that ChatGPT and Anthropic and these and Grok and we're hoping that they just build ethical models."
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"Dario just wrote this essay about pacing the frontier. Sam and Elon seem to agree with it."
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"Many of us only know a movie called The Exorcist, and that's only sort of reference point for an exorcism."
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"Even this iPad that I'm holding here is part of an S-curve that took out the PC."
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"Just to clarify what Nate said there — in his book, 'If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies' — he does say in chapter 3, once AIs get sufficiently smart, they'll start acting like they have preferences, like they want things."
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"Jacob Coxson who worked at both Anthropic, which owns Claude, and OpenAI, which owns ChatGPT, did a tweet which has sent the world into a bit of a tailspin."
"Is it conceivable that the next Newton or Einstein is going to be an artificial intelligence? Could it be Claude?"
"If you look at some of Anthropic's reports, which are the maker of Claude, they already show that entry-level positions are at risk first, especially entry-level knowledge jobs."
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