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He gets enough wrong throughout the article that I can’t really draw much from his conclusions. Fun food for thought though as I do agree we are in an AI bubble. Regardless of that though for anyone using these models the transcendent change to daily productivity/workflows have been mind boggling. Intellectuals like to opine and fail to see enough value or have the capacity to build value and that’s why they remain intellectuals and not practitioners.

I work in AI now and spent 3 years in the crypto space, to say crypto has left nothing of value really is an over simplistic view. To say Uber is a failed company (I worked at a ride share company too), wow. Does he not remember the utter hellscape of getting a taxi in SF 10 years ago?

The executives at these companies (mine too) openly declare a bubble similar to .com in the offing, cash in on it while you can. Maybe you’ll get lucky and get early access to some of these models we’ve got cooking to use for personal projects ;).

Regarding Uber. Uber is deeply polarizing because it made no money up until the most recent quarter while racking up $31.5-billion in operating losses since 2014.

But they made more than 300 million last quarter if I recall.

They “yet to turn a profit” criticism hit a roar in 2022 as the easy money dried up. See articles like:

https://www.curbed.com/2022/05/uber-ceo-memo-super-pumped.ht...

Of course this opinion is now under threat as Uber is turning a profit. But the idea that Uber is a failure that just hasn’t realized it’s full potential in that capacity yet is still deeply entrenched.

Uber was a bet on driverless cars and they were too early. The question is if they can survive until self-driving arrives.

It’s interesting that as much as their CEO talks mobility and self driving, their fastest growing profit segment by FAR is delivery and it’s almost half their revenues.

They may be a bet on self driving for mobility, but they are making most of their profit growth from Amazon-style last mile.

> I work in AI now and spent 3 years in the crypto space

> Regardless of that though for anyone using these models the transcendent change to daily productivity/workflows have been mind boggling.

did you think the same thing about crypto?

Crypto is really cool, decentralized computation and asset management are very valid use cases. look at $rndr or $tao. there is still a lot of really good innovation going on that you and the mainstream media will pick up on in about 1.5 years. :)

Well I’m convinced!

How do you use AI in your daily productivity/workflows?

math calculation, general knowledge, interviewing, python scripting, vision for UI building, vision for technical analysis, GPTs for subject matter expertise, autogen for doc creation, competitive analysis using vision, builder.io (figma plugin) for HTML to figma designs, builder.io for generative designs for figma.

many more ways, the only limit is your imagination. basically just a massive accelerator and upleveler for me.

In the same way I used to use Internet search.

But now instead of wading through miles of junk to get to some potentially wrong answer I get straight to a potentially wrong answer.

Not wading through the SEO muck makes it all worth while. I pay OpenAI for the privilege.

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