AI and Business
Sangeet Paul Choudary explains that generative AI is a good way for startups to lose
Unlike the transition from on-prem to SaaS, when incumbents needed to rewrite everything to compete with the entirely new way of work pioneered by companies like Salesforce, generative AI is relatively easy to incorporate into existing technology stacks. Instead, he proposes that startups focus either on “model-only” applications like MidJourney, or on “workflow+model” vertical applications like Harvey for the legal industry.
Crypto
Education
Ryan Watkins on update your syllabus for ChatGPT suggests asking students to track changes while editing the chatGPT response.
Management
Ethan Mollick speculates on how AI-based organizations will look Reshaping the tree: rebuilding organizations for AI with examples of how his own Wharton startup works. Team members generate their project summaries and questions and let AI summarize and provide suggestions before a meeting.
Because AI is like a person, he thinks individual teams should develop their own best practices for using AI.
AI Market
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Venture Capitalists
see Sequoia: Generative AI Act 2
Reid Hoffman and Khosla talk:
Hoffman:
But Hoffman said that he’s not on board with Andreessen’s approach. “It’s kind of dumb to think that when you have major technologies there can’t be negative side effects,” he said, noting that all his AI projects have safety teams. “Tech can be amazing. Let’s be intentional about building.”
Khosla
He’s not buying existential risk, calling it “nonsensical” talk from academics who had nothing better to do. But he’s long on China risk, Khosla also gave a grudging endorsement of the Biden Executive Order, saying it was “okay.”