Ex-Google Chief Evangelist: Why 90% of Companies Are Optimizing AI for the Wrong Thing
4/9/202655 min
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If you are using AI to optimize for conversion rate, return on ad spend, or time-to-hire, you are pointing a self-driving car at the wrong address. And it’s going to take you there really, really fast.
In this episode of Finding Peak, I sit down with Nicolas Darveau-Garneau, former Chief Evangelist at Google and author of "Be a Sequoia, Not a Bo...
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:00
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Ryan Hanley· Host0:29
To me, AI feels different. It feels like it's moving so fast and so far in each leap that if you're trying to wait till the, like, the finished version, you're not gonna be able to catch up at that point.
Nicolas Darveau-Garneau· Guest0:41
I think as these models are doubling in power every six months, right? And they're getting ninety percent cheaper every year. Basically, if you kind of compound that out over five years, that's a hundred million improvement in price power. If you're telling the AI to go in the wrong direction, the AI's gonna take you there really, really fast. It's like a self-driving car with the wrong address.
Ryan Hanley· Host0:58
It's not about being right, it's about getting it right, and if you can't get past that, we can't move forward. [upbeat music] I am so far down this AI agent rabbit hole that it's insane. I, um, I'm not technically-- I'm not, like, a native tech guy. Uh, I get-- People, people misconstrue it, and I think, I think this is interesting. I'm interested just in your take on this. Like,