Alex Oberon (@alexoberon.bsky.social)
All this AI stuff is a slot machine. First pull you get a Billboard 100 song. Second pull your ears bleed. Third pull you get an stunning painting Fourth pull you get a spaghetti monster eating Will Smith Fifth pull you made your dream app Sixth pull you nuked your computer
Alex Oberon (@alexoberon.bsky.social) reply parent
I wonder if this is what people said when computers went mainstream.
Alex Oberon (@alexoberon.bsky.social)
The rest of the Game of Thrones books will be written whether it’s GRRM or not. My guess, some AI fantasy novel writing startup writes it to demonstrate how superior their writing AI is. Kinda like Google remaking parts of Wizard of OZ for the sphere using AI
Alex Oberon (@alexoberon.bsky.social)
Zuck is exceptional at capitalizing on bloody water. 1. Twitter -> X messy transition to make Threads. 2. Doubt around Sam Altman to poach top AI talent from OpenAI
Alex Oberon (@alexoberon.bsky.social)
The device after the phone in your pocket will be the same phone in the cloud. 1. Your flight lands and you turn off airplane mode 2. Your server side phone has already messaged the hotel with your ETA 3. It drafted replies to texts for you to approve 4. And is displaying your luggage carousel
Alex Oberon (@alexoberon.bsky.social)
Only people who have never managed other people are against AI
Alex Oberon (@alexoberon.bsky.social)
Like Netflix won the streaming wars by continuing to churn out solid content. Apple will win the AI wars by continuing to ship iPhones running the winning AI models