Here’s my notes from the panel at the Future of Media Technology, about how publishers are shifting from search and social to community development.
This made me both excited (because this is exactly what they should be doing, and tired (because I’ve been banging this drum for 20 years).
O’Reilly Media: Don’t use AI to make content hamburgers, use it to allow customers to find great content steak.
This is an amazingly written and researched interview with Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson.
I think this, from @endonend, is absolutely spot on:
What I think we need is more humanity. More sharing of our stories and life experiences. It’s how we come to appreciate people we don’t know and that may not look like or live like us. It’s easy to be baited into hatred of the faceless other, but a human being with a story we can relate to and empathize with? Much harder. It’s exactly why fascists focus on demonizing and dehumanizing people.
Trying to regain my joy in blogging for its own sake, by writing about things nobody else will care about, like weird proximate hotels and my coffee travails in Hamburg.
Stuck in an interminable passport queue - while EU citizens breeze through the gates.
Thanks, Brexit.
The only one of my Apple device getting the 26 update today is my iPad Pro. Not taking the risk with the others before travel - but the new iPad windowing is just too tempting.
How The Economist aims to survive – and thrive – in the age of AI.
And some insight into why it’s launching a newsletter on Substack.
Possibly the most disastrous thing about the rise of AI is the way it’s leading tech companies to abandon their net zero goals. Google appears to be the latest.
AI ain’t going to do us much good if our planet is no longer habitable for humans.