Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Feb 19, 2026 · 53 min · 12 segments
Welcome to Exponential View, the show where I explore how exponential technologies such as AI are reshaping our future. I've been studying AI and exponential technologies at the frontier for over ten…
Rohit KrishnanGuest
Azeem AzharHost
Like, when we went to the moon first, there used to be, like, a room full of people who were computers.
Like anything that I want to analyze about any subject, any topic, anywhere is effectively at my fingertips.
Like that is the thing that remains, right? So, I mean, it's really hard to explain, you know, where would you use it? Because I use it, like this is my, this is the prism with which I interface with every part of the world.
Anytime I see something similar to that, that I kind of want to find out, I go and either search or create a report or get it to kind of do some work for me.
Like if I'm trying to figure out, hey, I want to do, you know, this particular project, Which book should I purchase or buy? Can you kind of compare and contract? These are simple ones or more complex.
If there is any analytic work that I kind of need to do either as work or like for myself, financial analysis, it's not like the components are, you know, quantum physics.
I mean, these are solvable problems and there is a 10, 12, 20 step process that I would have taken if I had enough time and energy to kind of go off and solve that problem.
But I don't have the time, which means most of them would have not gotten done.
It's amazing that like one way to think about it is that you have an analyst at your disposal and you can spin up a report about anything in the world in 20 minutes.
But like, it's a extremely well-researched 90th percentile report on any subject and topic that you want in 20 minutes.
Like, when we went to the moon first, there used to be, like, a room full of people who were computers.
Like anything that I want to analyze about any subject, any topic, anywhere is effectively at my fingertips.
Like that is the thing that remains, right? So, I mean, it's really hard to explain, you know, where would you use it? Because I use it, like this is my, this is the prism with which I interface with every part of the world.
Anytime I see something similar to that, that I kind of want to find out, I go and either search or create a report or get it to kind of do some work for me.
Like if I'm trying to figure out, hey, I want to do, you know, this particular project, Which book should I purchase or buy? Can you kind of compare and contract? These are simple ones or more complex.
If there is any analytic work that I kind of need to do either as work or like for myself, financial analysis, it's not like the components are, you know, quantum physics.
I mean, these are solvable problems and there is a 10, 12, 20 step process that I would have taken if I had enough time and energy to kind of go off and solve that problem.
But I don't have the time, which means most of them would have not gotten done.
It's amazing that like one way to think about it is that you have an analyst at your disposal and you can spin up a report about anything in the world in 20 minutes.
But like, it's a extremely well-researched 90th percentile report on any subject and topic that you want in 20 minutes.
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