we (techies / society) have some big problems to solve wrt - data privacy & adtech & psychological profiling - identity/auth vs anonymity, human vs bot - platform lock-in / ownership of tech & data - network effect incumbent wins vs competition for better algos & services - data collected by locations when you're simply *existing* in public spaces AI will make all of these issues *much* higher-stakes as it continues getting cheaper / wiser / more integrated into everyday life
I feel like many ppl are very hard at work on the models & the hardware to deliver us better and better capabilities, but we're not preparing to make the best use of them... like, the story of GPT as a nerdy toy vs ChatGPT becoming a huge super useful tool simply by putting a chat face on it- the UX delayed adoption & imo is still far from perfect
I agree w cynicism abt "just a GPT-wrapper" startups - it is precarious to depend on an external API to supply the magic brains for your wrapper UX... yet I think the work of designing the smile mask is as challenging & important as continued improvement of the shoggoth itself