Steven Sinofsky on why Jev fixes his oldest complaint about AI: natural language was never an efficient interface.

"Ask yourself how many people are really, really good at asking questions. Less than half the people can ask a good question in a meeting."

"And then how often do you look at the answer and get really frustrated before it's finished, but you have to pay all this money to watch the seven paragraphs come out...?"

"My favorite is the output of it is designed for probabilistic programming."

"Instead of saying, 'Is this a customer service question? Then route to customer service, otherwise route to general help desk,' it's, 'This is 80% customer service.' That's exactly simulation."

"There's 50 years of computer science research in literally probabilistic if statements. Suddenly the coolest place to be in computer science is gonna be probabilistic programming, which was all of computer science in the 1960s and '70s."

"This is not all new. It's gonna be very interesting to dust off all of that work, because it's exactly what's going on. An if statement now is if X percent, not if always."

"The way that Jev works is it's a custom programming language almost, which is: here's the prompt, come back with a percentage. And then you put that in the if statement."

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