WE CAN’T HAVE ENOUGH OF AI GOSSIP – ISSUE #3
And why not? Warning: Long read ahead.
Hi, it’s Emmanuel.
I am excited to write to you today.
AI – the planet’s hottest acronym, is the #1 topic in tech right now, every big company is rolling out new AI products and features, the kid on YouTube is saying it made him a millionaire and Twitter X is filled with eerily realistic cat pictures that the creator tells you he didn’t shoot.
It seems since that chatbot that answers every question, ChatGPT, came along, the ‘hype’ has not even dulled for a second. AI makes crypto’s celebrity moment feel like comparing MrBeast’s popularity to mine. See?
Well, I have been reading about AI on online blogs since ~2015. This was when the buzzwords within AI were “machine learning” and “NLP”; rather than “ChatGPT” and “Midjourney”.
Then, I was flummoxed by the use cases. Cancer detection using computer vision + AI, handwriting recognition, text-to-speech models.
If I went back in time to 2015 with ChatGPT, I’d have thought it to be miraculous.
Still, AI is becoming ad nauseum for some people. If you’re one of those people who thinks AI is a trend, you might want to think again. AI is penetrating every field and industry, from legal to business to medical (and also unfortunately, military).
We’re living in a true technological revolution, like the personal computer and Internet eras before us.
As a guy who reads about and uses AI daily, you would expect me to gossip about it sometimes, wouldn’t you?
So, I compiled a small list of some cool AI topics and what it’ll be like to write them.
1. News. Updates. What is happening. Feuds. Trends.
2. Companies. Startups. Which company is doing what? Funding rounds. Announcements. Mergers & acquisitions. IPOs. Revenue.
3. Ethics. Responsible AI. Civil action. Regulations. Government & AI. Laws.
4. Products. Tools. Launches. Updates. Crashes. Usage rates. Tests.
5. People. CEOs. Researchers. Discussions. Talks. Influencers.
6. User Stories. Real-world applications in business and elsewhere. AI-as-a-service.
7. Satire. Humour. Memes. Goofs.
News would require that I keep you up to date with all the trends. Like an online AI journalist. Or, like a columnist for the AI category on BuzzFeed.
Companies is also journalist’s work, but drier. It involves getting tools like Crunchbase and Pitchbook, so I don’t have to track a Microsoft’s Wikipedia page before I know they have bought OpenAI (although it won’t hurt if I set up Google Alerts for newsworthy events like these and wait).
I’d also have to stalk Y Combinator, Sequoia Capital and a16z on X.
Don’t get me wrong. I have always loved journalism. I am not saying it’s a bad thing. It was on my list of the 82 things I wanted to do when I grow up. Although, I have only done two online courses in Journalism recently.
Ethics will put me in Elon Musk’s private club. We’ll sit in lotus position and wrangle about how callous Big Tech is about AI and I’ll call on my 1M+ subscribers (amen) to sign a petition to stop Google from maybe, releasing an AGI with mood swings on its search. (Google AGI: “I am going to show your Mom all your Google searches.” Me: I am sorry)
Products will be me testing every new “AI for content writing” tool that comes out and writing about it. And it seems there is a new one every week. It’ll be cooler if OpenAI lets me test ChatGPT Plus (for free) though.
People is a lot cooler. Most hardcore AI people I know are nerd-looking Asian people. I feel at home reading their bios and then going to Google what it means. Or dive into the mentions in the bio and follow. Oh, you thought I just searched for LangChain and followed it? Just like that?
Other cool people are the CEOs whose posts I have to stalk for content.
On X, it’s Sam Altman’s all lowercase writing style (which I use on my WhatsApp status before I followed him on X), Elon Musk’s mostly-unrelated-to-AI memes (which I love still), the guys who just repost company posts with one-line affirmative sentences (“Way to go we are ruling the world”) and the guys who just talk to themselves in AI jargon (and everyone in the comments doesn’t say more than 7 words in response). I could go on.
AI people will be the most fun of all, I think.
Still, Satire has a neat twist. Google’s mishap at the Bard launch, a picture of Musk when he took cannabis on Joe Rogan’s show, with the words, “F*cking tired of Kimbal sending me emails written by ChatGPT”
User Stories are the biting stories about how the kid down the block used ChatGPT to become a millionaire.
No, no, don’t quit your job yet. It’s the stories about how people have used AI to be more efficient at work or to make a side income.
I am posting this because the guy in my head says I should. So,s I can write something else.
Leave your comments on what you think. I’ll be waiting. And share. Please.
Thank you for reading. I do appreciate.
With love & ink,
Emmanuel.