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Kevin Weil frames current AI models as a permanent floor — every future model will only be better, reshaping how people should think about today's limitations.
Kevin Weil: You said today is the worst product from you today. The model the model that you use today is the worst AI model that you'll ever use for the rest of your life.
Weil recounts a personal anecdote where ChatGPT interpreted a confusing medical letter about his son's biopsy result, providing instant reassurance during a 72-hour wait to reach the doctor.
Kevin Weil: The first thing I do of course is take a picture of it, upload it to chatbt and say, Hey, should I be worried about this? And it comes back immediately. No, you're fine. This is like completely benign. Don't worry about it. You're all good. But I actually wasn't able to get a hold of the doctor for 72 hours.
Weil explains OpenAI's philosophy of iterative deployment: ship products that are only partially good now, because the underlying models will rapidly close the gap within months.
Kevin Weil: If you build a product that can do amazing things, even if it's only 70%, you know, right at that thing, in two or three months, the next model's going to come along and it's going to be 95% good at that thing, and all of a sudden, you know, you've got something great.
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Weil describes how giving ChatGPT memory of his family's details turns generic suggestions (like hotel picks) into tailored, useful recommendations, and calls personalization a major upcoming focus.
Kevin Weil: In my case, I've made sure that it knows about my wife and what she does. You know, she's a seed investor. My kids, how old they are, because then when I ask it, hey, we have some free time, what should we go do, or we're going to go on this trip, it doesn't just recommend random hotels. It recommends hotels that are great for my family.
Weil argues against early heavy-handed AI regulation, drawing an analogy to the auto industry, which took 40 years to develop seat belts, airbags, and speed limits.
Kevin Weil: We definitely are in the camp that it is way too early to obstruct American AI with useless regulations. Like we don't even know what we should be regulating. It's like regulating the auto industry right out of existence early. It took us 40 years to realize we needed seat belts and airbags and that we needed speed limits and things like that.
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Weil expresses strong confidence in OpenAI's trajectory, citing its unmatched pace relative to prior employers like Twitter and Instagram and its unusually deep talent bench, while acknowledging execution risk from serious competitors.
Kevin Weil: This place OpenAI moves faster than any company I've ever worked at in my life. And I thought I had worked at places that move pretty fast. I think it's, you know, we have amazing people on the team. We really try and push decision-making and responsibility down into the teams.
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