> Ironically, Tao's post convinces me that AI, though amazing, isn't really the solution. Better UX and data quality is. Why was the data so disjoint to begin with? Why is Latex so hard to work with?
> In this case GPT-4 is used to solve a problem that shouldn't have even been one to begin with.
Friction. These problems shouldn’t exist, but they do anyway, and they’re everywhere. Anything human is inevitably going to be imperfect and messy to some greater or lesser degree, introducing friction into dealing with it. Especially as we produce more and more unstructured or semi-structured data, which AI is particularly good at wrangling. If AI can help us cut through that friction significantly faster and more accurately, that’s a win.