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An updated take on 'google reader' for the AI age. Here are the AI summaries of the newsletters we read. If you want to get a daily compressed digest of the most important points from them all...
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INFORMATION/AI EXPERIMENTS
This is a mostly 'messing around' project from Sam Lessin... but there are some specific things I am interested in / more than messing around with here starting from a few points: - 1. Practical AI superpower is TRANSLATION AND SUMMARIZATION: AI is way over-hyped, but the basic things it can do well (translation and summarization) are actually under-explored when it comes to product you can build with these new ‘superpowers’.
- 2. LLMs enable information COMPRESSION vs. SELECTION: I *think* the real super-power you get from AI is that you can take a bunch of ‘trash’ / low quality information and refine it so that it is worth reading / there is signal from it. Social media created a framework to help you SELECT from the internet just see interesting stuff by filter-to-friends… or filter-to-explicit follow… tiktok does that for filter-to-algorithmic-selection – what about COMPRESSION tho? ‘read everything and refine / compress meaning vs. just select?
- 3. AI can be used to PUMP original content: the ‘medium is always the message’... and any summarization is only as good as the quality of the information on the way in / the hidden signal. The internet itself is a certain type of information ‘pump’ that yields not quality content, but engagement or monetization – social media is a hyper-refined pump for the same (with some differentiation by network) – can you use AI and a tit-for-tat model to force people to contribute quality to get quality?
- 4. Oh and the free newsletter business.. that is probably over -- the future seems like it is going to have to be hard-paywalls (and maybe even no email newsletters, because I don't get how the current market dynamic around most NLs possibly survivies things like this.
If you are interested in these types of AI product questions - not the model layer (will be competed to zero), not chatbots, etc. but new ways to use the basic new superpowers of AI to do different interesting knoweldge products find me via calllist or DM me. Always up to bullshit, and we have a little fund called slow