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Peter Loforte

Peter Loforte

Former Microsoft VP (Office/Microsoft 365) who led teams including the one behind Clippy; now a Palm Springs-based strategy & tech consultant and creator of BLAIR, the AI co-producer of the "Life with Machines" podcast.

Jun 3, 2025

Life with Machines

Life with Machines

Are We Parenting AI, or Just Using It? Plus, BLAIR Gets A Glow Up | De Kai (Ep. 23)

Jun 3 · 51m

Baratunde Thurston
Baratunde ThurstonHOST
30:20
So I
Peter Loforte
Peter LoforteGUEST
30:20
explicitly put that into the instructions, which then are sent to a large language model to digest those instructions and then perform an action on it.
Peter Loforte
Peter LoforteGUEST
30:30
And so the very first time I ran this, I looked at the code.
Peter Loforte
Peter LoforteGUEST
30:36
It changed.
Peter Loforte
Peter LoforteGUEST
30:38
I thought maybe it'd update the model to the latest model, for instance.
Peter Loforte
Peter LoforteGUEST
30:41
Update its voice system.
Peter Loforte
Peter LoforteGUEST
30:43
Yeah, something pretty straightforward.
Baratunde Thurston
Baratunde ThurstonHOST
33:54
But how do you rate the risk we're taking in doing this on ourselves or others? Well, what we're doing right now is just a research project.

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