Working out AI questions

Toni Cowan-Brown and Benedict Evans discuss the rapid advancements in AI and try to make sense of its structural implications. They identify key questions surrounding AI, such as the cost and size of AI models, error rates, user interface design, and trust and safety concerns, while parking the AGI conversation. They explore the potential market structures, from a mainframe-like model with a few dominant players to a more distributed model. The conversation touches on the cost implications for consumers, the challenges of error rates in AI-generated content, and the importance of UI design in productizing AI. They also delve into trust, safety, copyright, and privacy issues, and the need for narrow, specific applications to mitigate risks and improve accuracy.