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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
AI is in its model-T ford era. The only color available is black. We’re on the cusp of the Chevrolet era. Lots of colors including custom ones. Requiring both more flexible factory operations (training) and after-market ops (mass customization)
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Patrick Atwater
@patwater
Seems more like the brass era of cars aka pre model-t where things are artisanal and not really widely distributed in impact across society.
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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
What are you talking about. ChatGPT use is mainstream and deeply along the adoption curve in normie land.
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Patrick Atwater
@patwater
Eh the wide adoption is more in the idle curiosity oh gee whiz there's a horseless carriage variety rather than shifts on the scale of changing out modes of transportation which I would compare to AI tutors on demand or big shifts in service industries Perhaps we are mixing metaphors Data from YouGov
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