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Neil Thompson

Neil Thompson

Researcher

Jul 30, 2026

11:32
just curious.
11:34
I'm definitely far.
11:35
She's a lot more regimented than I am and better than I do.
11:40
But I think that's pretty cool about this thing, too.
11:43
It's not a. we're going to do this diet for six weeks or six months.
11:48
This is truly a lifestyle change.
11:50
And it talks, you know, they talk a lot about you can have a cheat day.

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24:18
Now, what do we do? What would you say to those people?
5:36
Here's some of my recent conversation with him.
5:38
We should absolutely think of AI as being this very transformative technology that is not only very capable but actually becoming capable very quickly But when we then want to connect that to jobs, it's really important to say that AI capabilities are only one in a series of steps that lead to a change in jobs, right? And so you first say, "Okay, could AI do this task if it was given all the right information?" Really crucial in there was that if you give them all the right information, right? If you actually think of lots of things you might imagine doing.
6:12
So you say, "Oh, well, maybe when you check in for a doctor's office," so some of this can be done.
6:17
But of course, as soon as you want to get any kind of medical advice, all of a sudden you have to ba- get access to privacy records and things like that.
6:24
And so you can very quickly get in a situation where, oh, you need these kind of records.
6:29
So there's a whole bunch of stuff needs to be done there.
6:31
Then even if you say, "Okay, now I know how to build such a system so that it can get all the right information," you can ask the question, is it cost-effective to do? And some of the previous work my lab has done has shown that in many cases it might not be because you might need such an exacting system that it would cost a lot to run.
8:12
Why is that distinction important here?

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