How To Prepare Your Mind for the Age of AI — Sebastian Mallaby

The gist

1. Mallaby says Accel's Arthur Patterson ran scenario exercises on new technologies so the firm already knew 90% of a founder's pitch beforehand.
2. Mallaby says Ilya Sutskever grasped the transformer right away because he had been thinking about modeling sequential data for about a decade.
3. Mallaby argues handing off a narrow chore, like directions to Google Maps, is fine, but handing off all thinking to AI is not.
4. Mallaby uses large language models to sum up a scientist's papers before interviews, and checks for errors during the interview itself.
5. Mallaby won't let AI write for him, calling it terrible past about 800 words, because writing is how he works out what he thinks.