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this is so much sharper than grandiose purpose statements from [insert brand here] to fill the world with never-ending joy / unity etc
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We also already have a massive understated crisis of meaning . Happened because of the decline of the church and the invention of spare time.
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I’m quite amazed how many people see GPT3.5 as the sign life is about to change so much and AGI is close
Think a lot of people are in for a lot of disappointment
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I expect that the rapid advancement of AI will trigger a panic attack in humans to desperately seek a resolution to the meaning crisis. It's a very slow trickle now, but it could rapidly end up as a stampede! You don't want to be trampled in a mass panic!
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My guess would be the A380 or a slender skyscraper
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If you were transported to today from a thousand years ago what about modern life would be the most astonishing?
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Weird thing with flights these days. Is they are all so expensive it’s the same price or less in many cases to just go to airport and book a few hours out
And WAY more exciting
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Gmails SPAM folder is so very helpful these days.
But they should also make one called a SCAM inbox where known scams are put.
They seem to get more believable every year. Even finding them in the spam folder for a moment I’m nearly taken
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And it’s still mad that ads are tweets rather than just nice images.
Imagine assuming all newspaper ads should all look like articles or tv ads should be little tv programs
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See lots of ads now in the thread of replies to tweets.
Seems like rather dangerous positioning. Odd context to insert yourself in.
Twitter really doesn’t employ anyone who understands advertising it seems
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Going to be doing the Worlds longest flight in a couple of days.... what are good TV shows/series to download for it?
I liked Succession and Homeland,
didn't like WestWorld, was too clever for me
never got into Game of thrones.
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We are somehow way more worried about a balloon than a Chinese app putting kids in a morose trance for hours every day
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The future will be built from Databases that talk to each other in the backend.
Not sophisticated user accessibility tricks
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During this time I phoned Marriott (unrelated ) who’d locked my account after a data breach , and the lady was moving between 3 different computers to resolve the issue. She was fab but took 35 mins of tapping
We are building the future on top of utterly ruined foundations
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As I wait an hour to check into a hotel because hotel tonight takes hours to fax the booking over.
I’m here on Twitter reading how AI will take all our jobs.
It’s just nonsense
Technical debt is vast and in all directions.
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The value of say voice interface wasn’t so much dictating an email but saying “ move me to an earlier flight and change my calendar around it “
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Part of the reason things are inefficient is most workflows work around separate programs. Not around flows of work.
Humans still end up being the orchestrator of it , switching between apps / programs
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Everyone thinks it’s about the tech. But it’s really about the integration of it
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Just sold my homing pigeons on Ebay...
...for the 22nd time.
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5m visits a day doesn’t seem like that many to me. Wonder what the growth curve is now
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OpenAI has been closely guarding details about ChatGPT’s popularity, saying only that it has more than a million users.
The real numbers: two months after launch, it has more than 30 million users, and gets roughly 5 million visits a day. nytimes.com/2023/02/03/tec
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Still baffled by how so many people think most AI generated writing is good or good enough.
Are we that undiscerning ?
Do we have this little regard for potential customers ?
It’s quite embossing to see how many people fawn over writing that’s below average but easy
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There is something about remote working life that’s missing , than somehow places like wework or soho house, or coffee shops don’t in any way satisfy.
A weird 3rd place and togetherness feeling . Wonder what could be done
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Sometimes generative AI feels more like a Lorem Ipsum generator than anything else
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In many ways Obesity could be one of the main issues of our lives.
Expensive effective drugs like Ozempic will be interesting to track. Will it make demographic lines even clearer
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And yes , aware European stores have made some efforts to break the market but still don’t quite get why they failed so badly.
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I’d love to know what would happen if someone transported a Carrefour or Tesco or Eleclerc or Waitrose to a few US cities.
American Grocery selection is slowly getting to me.
Row upon row of vile badly packaged stuff and zero local produce
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The world needs a massive focus on removing bureaucracy.
We seem to never talk about it, but it's only becoming an ever bigger issue as we build on top of old systems and needs.
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Should we build houses here or not always seems like the wrong question.
Far better to think, how can we build houses here that add the most to the world,look great, are build sustainably, how can we make a community not a development, how can they be affordable, etc etc
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The quantity of output on Netflix these days in insane.
The quality….makes me think they should be making much less. Feels like they are throwing everything at the wall
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The fact Head and Shoulders doesn’t have a body wash called Knees and Toes, is disappointing…
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Have many of you moved to be much further away from the offices and stayed that way? The promise always seemed to be people moving to an Italian town or Cornwall but not seen much of that stick
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Sometimes it seems like lots of tech companies have absolutely no idea how to make money.
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Watching many keynote speakers once is mesmerizing, watch them again at another event and it's clear they just have limited, brilliantly honed material.
Even the Q&A ends up with the same lines.
The skill is width over perfection, IMHO.
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How is remote / hybrid / new working going ?
Genuine question to get a pulse on the world, randomly
Is life clawing back to pre pan? Are people getting tired, getting better at it , would love to know.
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We need generative AI for filling in vendor / supplier forms asap.
Or how about companies standardize them all
Don’t automate art. Automate invoices .
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We do deep digital business transformation and reinvent businesses from their core.
Here is our app we did where you can see what it's like to put sunglasses on, and something on Twitter using a trending hashtag
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I think a lot of agencies think most CEO's existential problems are brand awareness, or not being cool enough, or lack of pricing power....
......Rather than say crippling borrowing costs, massive staff shortages, new regulation, a lawsuit, supply chain chaos or forex rates
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So many ad agencies are like
"We are NOT an ad agency, we solve business problems with imaginative solutions, we don't make advertising, we implement creative solutions, we are management consultants with flair"
Then the work they show is all 60 second tv ads
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One of the things I find quite amazing about the world is how the UK can be building a High Speed train without any real idea of what it's designed to do
I adore trains but $125bn for HS2 seems like something you'd spend with a crystal clear sense of what problem it solves.
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