Uplift in Average Skills vs. High Skilled Workers with AI

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The increase in skills for average or low-skilled workers through upgrades may have a more significant impact than the advancements made by high-skilled workers using new tools. Current trends suggest that there is a compression effect happening whereby many individuals are being lifted up skill-wise, indicating a non-zero sum game where a large number of people are improving their skills simultaneously.

In this interview, recorded at a16z’s 2024 American Dynamism Summit, Tyler and Marc Andreessen engage in a rapid-fire dialogue about the future of AI, including the biggest change we’ll see in the next five years, who will gain and lose status with the rise of LLMs, why open-source is important for national security, the best and worst parts of Biden’s AI directive, the most underrated energy source, what the US can do to speed up AI deployment, what gives Marc optimism about Gen Z, which thinker helps him make sense of American capitalism, and more.

To hear more conversations from a16z’s American Dynamism Summit, please go to www.a16z.com/adsummit.

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Recorded January 30th, 2024.

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