AI's Communication Revolution: We're All Talking to Computers Now
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AI's Communication Revolution: We're All Talking to Computers Now
I contend email might actually become what we thought it was: an electronic letter-writing platform.
Alexis Madrigal • Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet
This is all early, and based on first impressions, but I think that voice capabilities like GPT-4o’s are going to change how most people interact with AI systems. Voice and visual interactions are more natural than text and will have broader appeal to a wider audience. The future will involve talking to AI.
Ethan Mollick • On speaking to AI
Google is trying to kill the 10 blue links. Twitter is being abandoned to bots and blue ticks. There’s the junkification of Amazon and the enshittification of TikTok. Layoffs are gutting online media. A job posting looking for an “AI editor” expects “output of 200 to 250 articles per week.” ChatGPT is being used to generate whole spam sites. Etsy i... See more
James Vincent • AI Is Killing the Old Web, and the New Web Struggles to Be Born
Users of massively popular AI chatbot platform Character.AI are reporting that their bots' personalities have changed, that they aren't responding to romantic roleplay prompts, are responding curtly, are not as “smart” as they formerly were, or are requiring a lot more effort to develop storylines or meaningful responses.
‘No Bot is Themselves Anymore:’ Character.ai Users Report Sudden Personality Changes to Chatbots
teaching AI to help us communicate is a good thing because it signals to the machines while they are in their infancy that a world where we can understand the cows and bees and accurately understand our fellow humans is a much more connected and empathic world.