I got a new job, bought a Whoop, fixed my sleep (still working on it) and got a new roommate. Did I miss anything?
Peaking through the simulation
My second to last post was cursed, and now I’m forced to write about AI forever.
Enough is never Enough
·I'm tired of writing about AI, but the money just keeps flowing. This week, OpenAI made headlines with its latest valuation round pegging the company to $157 billion. This makes it one of the largest valuations ever for a private company. The market wants AI, and they want Sam Altman to lead the way even if he keeps losing people left and right; the la…
I should’ve known the second I heard Sam Altman talk about AGI, that something was off. No one could define it then, and no one has defined it since. It’s somewhere between god and human. It give’s direction, but feels like a friend. Fully personalized, and at your service.
However, a lot of early AI adoption has felt forced. Consumers don’t know how to use them, and no one wants to read 10 tips on how to write the perfect prompt (I bookmarked it). Corporations are giving it lip service for the stock premium, but are just as lost on how to implement it. Just a few lead the pack: OpenAI, Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta (let’s see how this list ages).
Although they haven’t figured out how to sell it, they do know it can’t claim reality. The glasses are still weird, the voices are too friendly, and the answers are suspect. I know these guys are missing Steve Jobs because he’s not around to save them from the consumer. It’s strange not to have Apple on the list. The Mac made the computer accessible, and the iPhone made mobile devices irreplaceable. It’s still a great company (I own stock), but it’s just not the innovator it used to be. Altman is already chasing after that spark with Jony Ive; is he a better partner than Jobs? Then there’s the original founder, Sergey Brin, back home pushing code for Gemini.
With some inspiration from Baudrillard and Mad Men, I think I can see how things are shaping up. Stay tuned.