Box CEO Aaron Levie breaks down Box AI and generative AI’s impact on business | E1738
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Aaron Levie joins Jason to discuss the launch of Box AI (19:13), AI as a platform shift, its potential effects on employment dynamics (25:53), and much more!
(00:00) Aaron Levie joins Jason
(4:12) Thoughts on the impact and pace of AI
(6:54) Aaron's "Aha!" moment
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(11:33) Getting consent to use data from customers
(13:50) Creating an AI model for early adopters
(19:13) Aaron demos Box AI
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(25:53) AI making the workforce more efficient
(33:29) How AI technology affects morale
(36:45) The non-obvious uses of AI
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(39:44) The Writers Guild strike in Hollywood
(46:57) Copyright and citations
(53:49) The challenges with Crypto
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| 0:00.0 | Yeah, AI's gotten pretty crazy. |
| 0:03.0 | Just reminds me of like seeing the internet for the first time and you're like, |
| 0:05.7 | how does HTML work? And they're like, look, view source. And I'm like, okay. |
| 0:09.1 | And they're like, okay, now put it over here and use this hot dog editor. I'm like, what? |
| 0:13.2 | Got a hot dog editor. Get a dream weaver. And I'm like, okay, wait a second. |
| 0:17.9 | And now wait, you reload, okay, reload the page. Remember those conversations? Reload the page. |
| 0:22.4 | That's really good. Yeah, it's definitely, I feel like mid-90s discovering the web and then |
| 0:28.8 | mid-2000s of like we had Ajax, he had like a bunch of just came together. Yes. And it all just |
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| 1:29.1 | All right, everybody, really thrilled to have a long-term friend of mine, |
| 1:33.2 | incredible entrepreneur and part-time internet comedian Aaron Levy is back on the program |
| 1:40.0 | for his fourth appearance. Just to tell you how long he's been around. Episode 224 in 2022, |
| 1:47.2 | episode 389, 2013, episode 1173, February 21. And again, today, this puts you getting close |
| 1:58.2 | to the five-timers club. What's the record? Well, there are some journalists who have done |
| 2:04.0 | like news round tables on a regular basis. So taking them out, we do have a number of five-timers, |
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