Is AI Really Bringing the End of Software?

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One developer used Claude to clone Microsoft Office and Adobe, and there was a little bit of Wall Street notice there. Also, Halo, Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty, all decompiled by AI and running in a browser tab. Another 720 some odd AI written math papers churned by AI, dumped on mathematicians in a single day, and an engineer allegedly planted a $14 bug wrapped in toilet paper inside a conference room at OpenAI. That's coming up next on this episode of the AI Inside podcast.

What's going on, everybody? Welcome to another episode of AI Inside, the show where we take a look at the AI that is layered throughout the world of technology. I will not call it SI Inside, by the way. That is not going to happen. It is just AI Inside till the end of time, whenever that happens to be. I'm one of your hosts, Jason Howell, joined by Jeff Jarvis. How are you doing, Jeff?

Jeff Jarvis (2:05)

Good. How are you?

Jason Howell (2:07)

I'm doing all right. Doing okay.

Side inside. No Sports Illustrated inside. I see SI and I think of Sports Illustrated immediately. That's just what SI is to me. It's not super intelligence and it's certainly not the new name for artificial intelligence. No, no.

Jeff Jarvis (2:27)

I also see, so having worked at Time Make, I see Sports Illustrated, having worked at Coddy Nast, I also see SI as SI Newhouse, who was the head of the company. I see.

Jason Howell (2:41)

I understand. Okay.

Jeff Jarvis (2:42)

SI had a different meaning there, yeah.

Jason Howell (2:46)

Why the renaming to SI?

Jeff Jarvis (2:50)

My theory is that someone told him, well, what we're really building is super intelligence. And he thought, well, that's a better name. That's a neat name. Yeah.

I like that one. And he just misunderstood and didn't get it.

Jason Howell (3:05)

Like, does it have anything, when I think about it, are they trying to route around public resistance to AI?

Jeff Jarvis (3:14)

It makes it worse.

Jason Howell (3:14)

Like, well, it's not AI, it's SI, it's totally different. And like the people that aren't completely plugged in or in the know might actually be convinced that it's something completely different.

Jeff Jarvis (3:23)

You're trying to give way too much credit here, Jason.

Jason Howell (3:25)

I don't know, like I was trying to understand it.

Jeff Jarvis (3:27)

You're wasting tokens on this.

Jason Howell (3:29)

Okay.

I love that as a saying for when you're spinning your wheels and you need to just move on. Dude, you're wasting tokens right now. Let's just move on.

Jeff Jarvis (3:40)

Let's make that a thing. Yes.

Jason Howell (3:42)

That should be a thing.

That could be like a T-shirt or something. Maybe that would be an AI Inside T-shirt. Quit wasting tokens and listen to this podcast.

Jeff Jarvis (3:52)

So as we start, I want to thank some nice folks who watched the show, came out to Haverhill Mass on Saturdays. I presented Hot Type, so thank you for coming. Yes. Great. It was just wonderful.

Jason Howell (4:01)

That was the tour and everything?

Jeff Jarvis (4:05)

Yes. So I gave a book talk at Historic New England. It's huge, huge, like 10-foot tall screen with a big picture of a lanotype on it. It was wonderful.

And then went up the hill to the Museum of Printing, where I stood next to Chris Bradford, who's a wonderful volunteer there, who knows the lanotype, as we were answering question after question after question about the machine and demonstrating it. So it was a lot of fun.