The AI Future Nobody Wants

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In AI, learning is winning.

While Thursday’s newsletter discusses the present, the Leaders segment on Sundays will inform you of future trends in AI and provide actionable insights to set you apart from the rest.

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Relevant news on the AI industry

Deep dives into trendy or relevant products and companies in the industry, starting with a deep dive into NVIDIA, the crown jewel.

Recaps on the state of markets (private and public) and insights derived from them

Deep dives on key technological trends you must pay attention to, like today’s issue on the privately-controlled human-knowledge interface.

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Today, I will convince you to become a zealous defender of open-source AI while scaring you quite a bit in the process.

Irremediably, through LLMs, AI is poised to become the interface between humans and knowledge, taking the throne from open search and social media. In other words, soon, everyone will obtain their knowledge almost exclusively from AI.

Kids will be tutored with AI Agents

A Copilot will summarize your job emails and draft your response

You will consult AI companion who knows everything about you on how to manage your latest fight with your significant other

And so on. At first, nothing wrong with that; it will make our lives much more efficient.

The problem? AI is not open, meaning there’s a real risk that a handful of corporations will control that interface.

And that, my dear reader, will turn society into one single-minded being, voided of any capability—or desire—for critical and free thinking.

Here’s why and why we should fight against that future.

An Ubiquitous Censoring Machine

A few days ago, ChatGPT experienced one of the major outages of the year, going down for multiple hours.

Growing dependence

Naturally, all major sites echoed this event, including one that referred to it as ‘millions forced to use the brain as ChatGPT takes morning off’, and the headline got me thinking.

Nonetheless, over the previous few hours, I had been going back and forth with my ChatGPT account as I needed the model every ten minutes—not for writing because it’s terrible—but to actually help me think.

And then, I realized: this is the world we are heading toward, a world where we are totally dependent on AI to ‘use our brains.’

But aren’t AI products failing miserably as we speak?

Last week, when we discussed whether AI was in a bubble, I argued that demand for GenAI products was, in fact, very low. In actual fact, if you’re using LLMs daily, you can consider yourself…

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