You're holding your AI wrong - by Chris DiBona
In the 1985 movie “ Real Genius” , there is wonderful montage as our young protagonist Mitch Taylor attends one of his gut classes 1 over a few weeks at ‘pacific tech’. He noticed that a number of his classmates were taking notes and recording the professor. As the montage continues, there are fewer and fewer students, as one by one and then row by row they would be replaced by tape recorders of the lecture.
The montage wraps up with Mitch entering the classroom and noting that he was the only human there, with the professor having replaced himself with a phat reel-to-reel, having written the statement “Math on tape is hard to follow, so: Please Listen Carefully.” on the chalkboard.
In the early days of google, like 2004 or so, in Building 42, there were conference rooms with in room calculators that would show the cost of the meeting given the average cost per hour of the people in it. You’d punch in how many people were in the room and bam you’d would have a constantly growing costly ticker. There was a web page internally that did the same thing that you were pointed to during noogler training. I don’t think I ever saw anyone use them.
Fast forward to early 2011: Google co-founder Larry Page was named the CEO at Google. Shortly after his re-ascension, he sent an email to everyone at google. I’ll paraphrase, as I don’t have access to this email anymore. It was pretty short. The Subject line read something like “Meetings at Google” and the text was pretty snappy, something like:
