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Opinions about product management, technology news and inclusivity in tech. Diversity is about demographics, inclusion is about creating a sense of belonging.

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$60 million well spent licensing that Reddit data for AI use.

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The huge potential of AI is being able to feed it all the documents about your business and ask it questions. It is truly a game changer to be able to ask questions about prior decisions or product specs as trivially as if it were a SQL query.

The problem is hallucinations.

Without addressing hallucinations, generative AI can help where accuracy is not a requirement like content generation from art to entertainment but it will fail to meet expectations of businesses spending billions on it.

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How it started versus How it's going

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"It's not Scarlett Johansson's voice. IT'S A VOICE ACTRESS THEY CAN'T NAME FOR PRIVACY REASONS"

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Amazon plans to charge a fee for future versions of Alexa to offset the cost of LLM features. The pressure from ChatGPT is immense.

But how long this business model can last when Google is going to provide LLM features for free as part of search and Google Assistant?

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I think crypto broke people’s brains. There was a clearly useless technology being hyped by pundits, VCs and tech companies which turned out as worthless as we all thought.

So there’s now a gut reaction to treating any hyped technology as a scam. The trend is similar to how after the dotcom crash, pundits proclaimed every year that we were in a bubble for almost two decades while big tech started generating hundreds of billions in revenue.

AI is the same. It’s hyped but there’s also substance.

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The background hum of layoffs in both tech and tech adjacent fields continues unabated.

14% of Pixar losing their jobs is rough especially as this will be blamed on Disney’s overhiring to chase after Netflix. TikTok is a continuation of big tech’s inability to cut once & deep.

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Humane trying to find a buyer for its business after the disastrous AI pin launch is unsurprising.

Expecting $750M to $1 billion for it is downright hilarious.

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One of the most important mental prisons for people to free themselves from is the prison of other people’s opinions.

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I can’t help but notice the parallels between my generation of techies thinking copyright was bad when it came to music, movies and apps which should all be free and today’s techies who feel that way about IP used to train LLMs.

What changed is that streaming and ad supported apps became more convenient than piracy.

I wonder if there’s a similar analog to say cloning an actor’s voice being more convenient to do while respecting copyright versus illicitly.

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It’s interesting to see different cultural norms evolving around AI and deepfakes. In the US, we are constantly reading about how deepfakes are a threat to democracy while in India politicians use them for everything from making candidates multilingual to composing campaign songs

The use of AI in elections reminds me of social media and elections. There are positive stories that counter the negative ones and vice versa. Social media gave us AOC but it also gave us Trump

https://www.wired.com/story/indian-elections-ai-deepfakes/

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There’s long been a notion of two internets when it comes to China and the rest of the world where super apps like WeChat reign while Google is non-existent.

It’s now the inverse where products like EVs and smartphones are barred from the US which are competitive with US ones. And these products are giving the American ones a run for their money.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-slashes-iphone-prices-china-amid-fierce-huawei-competition-2024-05-20/

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Google has preemptively paid an antitrust fine in its case with the DOJ in an attempt to avoid a trial. If this works, it changes everything.

Next time the DOJ or FTC comes knocking just ask, "how much do I owe you?" https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/google-cuts-mystery-check-us-bid-sidestep-jury-trial-2024-05-20/

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Hey, does that ChatGPT 4o voice sound familiar?

OpenAI:

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One of the reasons I don’t believe in fears of catastrophic mass unemployment due to AI is that it ever seemed likely, governments would just ban it.

We live in a world where Biden effectively banned Chinese EVs to protect Ford/GM/Tesla jobs. No government would let AI do worse.

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This is nuts. Sam Altman asked Scarlett Johansson to voice ChatGPT 4o and when she refused, OpenAI hired someone else to mimic her voice from "Her" only to take it down after she complained. Wow. 🤯

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The most notable features in this announcement are the addition of a Copilot key to the keyboard and Recall which is an implementation of “Stuff I’ve Seen” which has been a desire of Bill Gates for years.

That said, the narrative and storytelling are much better than Google I/O.

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/05/20/introducing-copilot-pcs/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR24is7ASsmOFVX1jIttjgfwwkZW0GBkSok1XW0DrI5s9458v9396sr6vC8_aem_AT97KYVyCZMHF51KhBB8Kh8qnnK43CFw-a0FqURS4rDFdwPfO2GgQcKmuOv8DDNqPoofYzGWdCqEhIel3yS-QtxC

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OpenAI is pulling the AI voice that was used in their announcement of GPT-4o because people said it sounds like Scarlett Johansson from Her.

This is odd mostly because there’s little chance it was a coincidence and did they not expect people to point it out?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-20/openai-to-pull-johansson-soundalike-sky-s-voice-from-chatgpt?embedded-checkout=true

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It looks like along with the departure of Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, OpenAI has disbanded its superalignment team whose mission was to “control AI systems much smarter than us.”

OpenAI’s flirtation with AI doomerism is officially over and they’re now just another startup.

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The story of DeviantArt, a community site now overwhelmed by content from AI bots and which is itself selling user content to train AI, reads like a cautionary tale for Reddit.

The saving grace is there’s no Reddit alternative for users upset about their content being sold to AI companies

https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/deviantart-what-happened-ai-decline-lawsuit-stability.html

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What else is going on at Tesla during its fifth consecutive week of layoffs? Oh. 😬

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If a time traveler had shown me these headlines anytime in the past 20 years and also shared that all this was happening while Google was making $23 billion in profits per quarter I’d have called them insane.

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Tesla is on its fifth consecutive week of layoffs.

Cutting once and cutting deep is typically recommended as a way to address the morale and trust issues that come with layoffs.

Unsurprisingly Tesla has decided to Think Different™️ with its approach.

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I’ve had mixed feelings about manager readme. On one hand I do a verbal version in my first meeting with new collaborators to let them know I communicate directly but mean well.

OTOH, the power dynamic as a manager can read as a list of flaws your team has to put up with.

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Someone recently asked me for advice about leaving their job. They said they didn’t want to be seen as “running from the job” but instead “running to the new job.”

I said a job isn’t a test of character. You exchange your labor for money and opportunity. They need to deliver.

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