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Chief AI Officer @USV. Servant Leader. ENTJ. My goal in life is to be an echo.

OH at @usv: a new experiment where we invite an AI assistant to join our conversations and share some of the themes with the world. We subbed out GPT 4o for Sonnet 3.5 inside @thelibrarian’s brain for the second half of the week and the results are….telling.

Week of June 17th 2024:

2/ The Seasonality of Battery Storage: Batteries often remain idle for much of the year and generate most of their revenue during peak summer months. This emphasizes the need for more consistent, year-round applications of battery technology.

3/ Open Social for Personal Agents: We're trying to crack the code on personal agents that can seamlessly navigate both private and public data in open social architectures. It's like building a digital diplomat that can whisper your secrets while shouting from the rooftops.

4/ The Need for Narrow Use Cases: Half of the developed world tried OpenAI, but only half come back. We need to hand people a hammer and point to a nail. Narrow AI use cases might be the key to turning first-time users into daily users.

5/ Tipping vs Fees: Tipping is emerging as a viable alternative to transaction fees on some open platforms. There's even precedent in the portfolio of switching from a small transaction fee to a 'tip the platform' model having dramatically increased revenues.

1/ The Neighborhood Effect: Different Layer 2 solutions are emerging as specialized 'neighborhoods' within the Ethereum ecosystem, optimized for various different transactions and use cases, creating a diverse blockchain environment.

Haven't been following these. Is Sonnet better? 

Also, you should quote link the previous week's OH at the bottom of the thread, to chain them together, thus making it possible to navigate them