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Working as designed

‘allowing for controversial yet eye-catching content like AI celebrities, OpenAI is borrowing from a playbook perfected by social media companies such as Meta: Do whatever it takes to get users on the app and ask forgiveness later, said Thales Teixeira, a business professor at the University of California at San Diego. “First you grow, and then you try to solve the problems,” he said.”’ // Norms arbitrage and breaking the law is a standard business innovation for tech startups.

Actually changing is what matters most

If you make huge changes to how your under performing business works, there’s a good chance you’ll improve things. That applies whether you introduce a new tool - like AI - or not. Just changing how you run meetings for example is a big enough change that could have massive effects. You could say the same thing for introducing Extreme Programming, a lean mindset, DevOps. // The value of enterprise technology is inversely proportional to how little you need to change the “culture.

AI chatbots at the municipal level

Using an AI chat desk to augment the support desk for a Us county. This seems like a basic packaging of AI stuff that you could sell to thousands of places. It probably also exposes the redundancy and waste on the US Federalist system. E.g., does every county and city need different bulk trash pickup processes and PDF overviews? 🔗 Dreamforce 25 - how AI voice technology will give City of Kyle residents 24/7 phone support

Larry's AI

Larry’s pitch for a full-stack, private cloud AI platform. And, here, you can see someone trying to explain more. 🔗 Ellison’s AI vision for Oracle - robot surgeons meet enterprise data reality

Plot Unfolding Machine v9

For solo role playing people. After Mythic, PUM is the most fleshed out system. It has a different style and philosophy of play that I can never put my finger on. 🔗 Plot Unfolding Machine PDF V9 Release!