There’s a substantial difference between the frontier AI models that are developed by data rich companies (Google, Meta) & the rest which need to rely on other data. We’re in the eye of the storm of the race to the AGI & how much we’re questioning this is a big issue. #technopolitics

What would a much more free competition between an unshackled YouTube and Netflix look like for the users, creators and the wider #programmatic ads economy which supports the entire Internet?
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How do you feel about #AI making #laws? 🤔
#technopolitics

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I was tired of the world today, here you go 👉 troubadour.substack.com
#technopolitics #ai #trump

Legal doesn’t always equal to just or fair. In a world where governments create arbitrary rules to protect their power against the society, the oligarchy of current platforms cannot be trusted by the global community.

Heres an alternative, better universe which has to be possible👇

#technopolitics

Why do we focus on wrecking the lives of a few thousand artists and creatives then?

What life changing efficiency gains or cost cutting can we hope to get out of that?

My latest musings on the subject, enjoy 👇

#ai #arts #creativity #economy #development

47% of venture capital funding in 2023 went to #SaaS companies and the global SaaS industry is worth more than US$237 billion (probably much higher now as we speak). All of these businesses are counted as tech companies and treated as such from investment to valuation expectations.

What do consumers have as alternatives to their popular platform products? Despite strong network effects, do we keep whining about them or support people who create those alternatives? What needs to change for the developers and consumers to save ourselves from the stranglehold of five companies?

When Ida Tarbell began to investigate Standard Oil in 1901, nobody expected that her articles in every issue of McClure’s for three years and dogged pursuit of ending the unfair business practices of the conglomerate would indeed be a major factor in bringing down Standard Oil.

Life is the outcome of thousands of tiny choices we make everyday. Paying £4 for that simple flat white, not voting for the proposed road change that makes kids walk 15 minutes longer every morning,…
How do we make those choices? How did we lose our touch with our present reality 👇
#technopolitics

“All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there.”
Charlie Munger was a big fan of inversion as a mental model. Think all the possible ways of failing so that you can avoid them. And more on the dangers of status quo for the change makers.

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#deepseek

Charles H. Duell, the Commissioner of the US patent office in 1899 is claimed to have said that “everything that can be invented has been invented.”

We were nowhere near peak innovation then, we are not now either, yet the playground has gotten smaller and the drivers behind the wheel are few 👇

Technology should first and foremost change lives, the material conditions of life, not just provide entertainment, be a soothing toy making you forget the necessities which you don’t have.

And more musings from my recent trip to Africa 👇

#technopolitics #wildlife #techforgood

The holy grail #algorithm of #dating is not found and it’s not meant to be found, that’s the whole point about them, they want us to chase our tails. Some claim AI will help, I don’t, see why: www.troubadourstechforthebigapes.com/blog/politic...

T-shirts dead after a few washes, jeans screeching at the seams, socks that cannot keep the toes in...

Planned obsolescence is 100 years old and ruined our lives. I’m exploring how to get back our taste for good things 👉 www.troubadourstechforthebigapes.com/blog/quality...