Skill issue—in management.

Good leaders perceive workhorse vs showhorse spectrum, critical toil vs needless flash (and vice versa).

It’s hard. Most fail at hard things. The industry in the aggregate will fail at hard things

So you get articles like this.

Open source meth is still bad in absolute terms even if it’s better than the alternative meth

They’re not going to build their own, it’ll just be one of the many capabilities of the agent platform they use. A 2024 SaaS is just a playbook for next-gen AI.

You don’t buy a spelling correction program because it got built into Word. And now, the OS…

Indeed perhaps the most valuable lesson from travel is returning with the realization of just how poorly the generalizations and statistics describe the messy reality of a place. Everywhere has every sort of person

“In a sufficiently complex system, malfunction or even total non-function may go undetected for long periods, if ever”

John Gall, The Systems Bible

When faced with the choice of making genmedia more expressive vs looking higher production-value, big labs always choose the latter.

Expressivity requires intent, which turns out to be rarer and therefore less apt to show up in a benchmark or crowdsourced head-to-head comparison.

The recent Acquired ep on “Alphabet Inc” put it aptly: social media moved into Google’s space, video (reels, “pivot to video”), and social media for socialising moved to message groups, iMessage/Whatsapp/Discord.

Revenue-wise, video ads have always been the sun to print ads peanut m&m.

Look where the pucks going then:

Implication: ChatGPT as a realtime video avatar will hit the jackpot with ads, but not before. Count on the ChatGPT device having a screen for that reason

What? AI assistants are prohibited from providing legal and/or medical advice. They're not lawyers (nor doctors).

Being a layer or a doctor means being a human being. ChatGPT is neither. Also unsure how you would envision penalties - do you think Altman should be jailed because GPT gave me a link to Nexus ?

I did not find any rules or procedures with 4 DCA forbidding usage of AI.

We call it “legacy DeepMind”

In certain niches, the marginal value of kneecapping the competition exceeds the viable budget for counteracting gaming. It may be a quirk of this reality’s hyperparameters that a UGC media monopoly inevitably suffers from this. Or maybe at a certain point it hits their bottom line and better enforcement is contrived.