What Cheaper, Faster, and Smarter AI Gets Us — With Aaron Levie

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

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4.7 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Aaron Levie is the CEO of Box. Levie joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss the implications of AI getting cheaper and faster after OpenAI cut GPT-4o's prices by half and made it twice as fast. We also cover AI's impact of AI on jobs, the evolving AI safety debate, and how companies like Box are harnessing these powerful technologies. It was our first public event and such a blast to meet so many of you! Hit play for a thought-provoking exploration of the AI cutting edge, and what comes next. --- Enjoying Big Technology Podcast? Please rate us five stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ in your podcast app of choice. For weekly updates on the show, sign up for the pod newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/6901970121829801984/ Want a discount for Big Technology on Substack? Here’s 40% off for the first year: https://tinyurl.com/bigtechnology Questions? Feedback? Write to: bigtechnologypodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Box CEO Aaron Levy joins us to discuss where AI goes next after the latest big releases
0:05.8	and what a building with this technology looks like as it gets faster, cheaper, and smarter.
0:11.1	All that coming up right after this.
0:13.5	Will AI improve our lives or exterminate the species?
0:18.3	What would it take to abolish poverty? Are you eating enough fermented foods?
0:23.7	These are some of the questions we've tackled recently on the next big idea. I'm Rufus Griscombe,
0:29.1	and every week I sit down with the world's leading thinkers for in-depth conversations that will
0:34.6	help you live, work, and play smarter. Follow the next big
0:38.2	idea wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to Big Technology Podcast, a show for cool-headed
0:46.2	nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond. We're joined today by Box CEO Aaron Levy
0:51.7	in a conversation recorded live at our first ever public event in
0:56.3	front of a packed house in Manhattan last week. It's a really fun back and forth about how far
1:01.5	the AI field has come, what companies can build with the technology today, and where it's
1:06.5	heading as Open AI and the rest of the pack keep shipping. Here's our conversation.
1:17.9	Well, Aaron, welcome back to the show. Yeah, thank you. So do we just like pretend that we're podcasting or like how does this work? Well, you already have given away
1:22.0	the secret which is that we're back together in a moment of crazy AI news. Yes.
1:26.9	But this time we're doing it in front of a live audience.
1:30.0	It's real.
1:30.3	And in front of the first ever public event for big technology.
1:34.2	And we're fully sold out with 130 people here with us in Manhattan.
1:38.0	This is going to be the first of many.
1:39.7	And listen, the audience isn't going to believe me.
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