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Plain English with Derek Thompson cover image

How AI Could Change Apple and Google, Writing and Music, and Everything Else

Plain English with Derek Thompson

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I'm Sorry, I Want to Apologize. I Rescind the Apology.

The idea, yes, that AI is the ultimate expression of abundance and crypto is theultimate expression of scarcity is a really nice way to distinguish these two technological movements. When I look at this technology, I think we don't even know what this is going to become. This is like seeing a tadpole in a uterus and trying to predict if it's going to be a frog or a human or a woolly mammoth. Like the biggest breakthroughs might not be on our radar at all. And Nat Friedman, the writer in VC, made this point very concrete when he was talking to you about a program called Refusion, which generates music from text prompts using visual sonograms.

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