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Voice and vision are probably how we'll interact with AI
The tech stack needed to change how we interact with AI already exists. How it all comes together remains open.
Greg Calacouris
I peruse the web.
search
What's happening next to search
Searchable content is becoming more exclusive, and AI is having its SEO moment.
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Are we just going to be chatting with bots now?
According to the dead internet theory, everyone on the internet but you is a bot. I never believed that everyone online is fake, but a lot of what I see can't be real people. LLMs now make it trivially easy for everything online to be a bot.
media
Are subscriptions the only way we'll get news?
The double punch of social media and the 24 hour news cycle devalued journalism. I've been thinking a lot this week about where the media goes from here.
social media
What algorithms did to the content experience
Consuming, creating and engaging got bundled. Consuming became mindless. Creating became ostentatious. Engaging became a social expectation.
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We're using AI chatbots incorrectly
Large language models by themselves aren't truth machines. When an AI chatbot responds it doesn't know anything. We shouldn't use them like they do.
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The medium is the message for social and AI
Content moderation is a red herring and getting practical with how genAI works and will make money.
social media
Post-social media?
We're all talking about how bad we feel using social media. But we're still using it and more than before.
social media
Making sense of tech this week
The Vision Pro, ZIRP, and text-based social media.
Different ways we interact with digital interfaces
Plus Font Fish, GOAT, David Attenborough narrates your life and more.
Is the internet broken?
Plus a kebab website, working class history, and some games with lessons.
How to use the internet
Plus computer chips, fix your tennis technique, sci fi ideas bank and more.