If you’ve been online long enough, Dropbox was likely your introduction to the cloud. The goal is still more or less the same—give you one organized place for all your stuff—but it’s no longer just about storing and syncing files. A hundred files on your desktop are now a hundred tabs in your browser, and Houston believes AI is what will finally bring calm to the chaos that’s been created by the tools of modern work.
For Houston, AI’s potential is so great that its arrival feels like a civilization shift. It’s also not just a professional preoccupation; AI is a personal interest too. A few years ago, he decided to teach himself machine learning in his spare time—and some of the AI tools Houston now uses to run Dropbox are ones he built himself.
Hear Houston discuss why it’s gotten so hard to find the information you need to do your job, the types of tasks we’ll increasingly offload to our silicon brains, and what Dropbox is doing to help make modern work more meaningful and fulfilling.