There's a balance of originality and usefulness that you can almost do like the two knobs you can tweak. I found out in AI that the fast followers are so much faster than they were before AI. So it's difficult to do something that someone else has already been doing, especially if they've got their first or really gained market share.
Ben Tossell writes Ben’s Bites, a daily newsletter on AI that’s read by over 15,000 others from Google, a16z, Sequoia, Amazon, Meta and more. He previously founded Makerpad, a no-code education side which was acquired by Zapier in March 2021. Important Links:
Show Notes:
- Ben’s journey into AI
- The importance of ease of use
- How AI will impact our lives
- Ben’s hackathon
- Balancing originality and usefulness
- Why Ben is wary of providing strategic advice
- Achieving ground-up change with AI
- Interaction between the AI industry and the governments
- How Ben wants AI to be used
- Following your curiosity
- Making the world more competitive
- MUCH more!