Half the money companies spend on AI is wasted; the trouble is, they don't know which half.
Oracle, yes that Oracle, is up 50% this week due to how much growth they are seeing in their AI cloud business.
Since Amazon, Microsoft and Google can’t build data centers fast enough, even a second tier cloud provider like Oracle is booking half a trillion dollars in orders due to high demand for AI.
“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge’”- Isaac Asimov
Podcast bros really dialed this up to 11. Any half assed theory is as good as science even if it makes no internal sense.
It’s tragic the internet has made people even more misinformed.
America is in its “bread & circuses” phase except there isn’t any free bread, just tax cuts for the rich and the circus is gleefully watching undocumented people get deported.
By the time you figure out that you’ve made a strategic mistake, it’s often too late. Intel is an example of this behavior.
A decade ago, Intel decided not to compete against ARM for mobile chips or Nvidia in machine learning because it was more profitable at the time to make chips for PCs. A decade later, it’s begging for government handouts.
What are similar examples of strategic errors being made by companies or countries today that you expect to manifest in 5-10 years?
Right wing influencers knew exactly what was at stake in this election and are now flaunting Trump’s win the worst ways possible.
A guy raises a squirrel for 7 years and builds a social media following with it. Internet haters report him to the Department of Environmental Conservation for “exploitation of the squirrel.”
DEC investigators show up to “rescue” the squirrel which bites one of them in the process.
Following standard protocol after an animal bite, the DEC puts the squirrel to death because it may have rabies. 🤦🏾♂️
I’ve lost hundreds of followers on Twitter this week writing about the potential and impact of LLMs on people and businesses.
No idea if people are bored with the topic or my takes were just that bad.😁
Either way I think LLMs are disruptive and the question is just how disruptive not if.
OpenAI doing a content deal with News Corp is expected at this point as every major news site has erected a paywall.
That said it’s amusing to see OpenAI talk about “supporting the highest journalistic standards” when describing their deal to getting access to The New York Post and Thd Sun for use in ChatGPT.
https://openai.com/index/news-corp-and-openai-sign-landmark-multi-year-global-partnership/
When I worked on the Metaverse, I talked with developers about whether generative AI would make creating games cheaper and they disagreed.
They also quoted the example of CGI in Hollywood movies. It simply raised the bar on expectations versus enabling cheaper special effects.
Really incredible that someone can be good at running companies full of rocket scientists (SpaceX) or brain surgeons (NeuraLink) but then totally 💩the 🛏️ running a social media site.
It really makes you wonder…
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that governments asking tech companies to provide encryption backdoors violates human rights.
This is awkward as various European countries are trying to pass laws mandating exactly that. Hopefully this is one more nail in the coffin.
As callous as Google’s and other big tech layoffs have been by sending you an email saying you’re unemployed, the viral Cloudflare layoff video is proof that it would be even worse optics for companies to do more.
Best to realize we’re all just numbers on a spreadsheet to corporations. Expecting loyalty from them is like expecting a hug from a rock. It’s so impossible as to be nonsensical.
The new business model for X is the original business model for Twitter which Elon dismantled on taking over the company.
An entire year to pull off the strategic equivalent of standing in place while driving away users, decimating its advertiser base and creating openings for competitors.
Truly, a business genius walks among us.
One of the fun challenges of building social products or even multiplayer games is that you can give people tools but can’t control how they use them.
You can tell people to use quote posts positively but can’t control people using them to dunk. Your game can limit communication to a fixed set of emoji reactions and users will find a way to imbue them with both positive and toxic meanings.
People are the hardest part of social software.
There’s going to be a golden window of opportunity for knowledge workers where AI makes you better at your job followed by a through of despair when AI can just do your job and you’re not needed anymore.
Welcome to the cycle of generative AI making search worse.
Quora uses ChatGPT which hallucinates an answer to a nonsense question.
Google Search picks up this nonsense answer from Quora which has high page rank and treats it as an instant answer.
One of the broken things about late stage capitalism is that we’ve decided that the executive who says we need to make touch screen smartphones or self driving cars is more deserving of recognition and financial reward than the people who actually build these modern marvels of technology.
This applies to every industry not just tech. Tech is just the one that I happen to be in.
I need the Slack message version of this.
One of the most useful mental skills you learn as a product manager is that every decision is about tradeoffs and there are rarely any perfect decisions.