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The hierarchy of engagement | Sarah Tavel (Benchmark, Greylock, Pinterest)
The Core Action on YouTube: Subscribing
AI Key Takeaways
- YouTube's core action evolved from watching a video to subscribing
- Subscribing is the core action on YouTube
- Creators care about YouTube because it's where they grow their audience
- Subscribing to content on YouTube brings accruing benefits and mounting loss
- All social products are marketplaces
- The subscribe button on YouTube is important for viewers' consistent return
- Finding creators whose content resonates leads to consistent return on YouTube
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#405 – Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin
The Legendary Amazon Approach to Meetings
AI Key Takeaways
- The use of six-page narratively structured memos is a legendary aspect of meetings at Amazon and Blue Origin.
- The purpose of reading memos silently together before discussing them is to ensure everyone is on the same page and can have an elevated discussion.
- Memo writing forces authors to present their best thinking and prevents them from hiding sloppy thinking behind bullet points.
- Weekly business reviews or business review meetings are more focused on incremental improvement and can be very efficient.
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Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on how AI and art will coexist in the future
The Future of AI-Powered Search
AI Key Takeaways
- In AI powered search experience, the conventional wisdom is that you ask the computer a question and get a smart answer or it talks to other AI assistants to collect an answer.
- The idea of how the web works will change with the ability to ask a question and get an answer.
- Searching online involves more than just asking a question and getting an answer; often, it is part of a larger task that requires additional research and transactions with an agent.
- The extent to which the dynamic of web search will change is still unclear, with concerns about referrals and the incentive to create new content.
- An AI search product that can summarize content may reduce the incentive for individuals to create new reviews or content.
- There needs to be a healthy economic engine where people are compensated for what they create in order to maintain participation and content creation.
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How Apple Lost to the EU
Changes at Google, Apple, Meta, and TikTok
AI Key Takeaways
- Google is required to offer choice screens on Android phones to allow users to select a web browser other than Chrome.
- Apple is developing a method for users to download apps without using the App Store.
- Meta (Facebook and Instagram) is notifying users and providing the option to appeal when their content is removed or their accounts are restricted.
- TikTok is now offering users in Europe a purely chronological feed as an alternative to its addictive algorithm-driven feed.
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Inside Google’s big AI shuffle — and how it plans to stay competitive, with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis
The Controversy Surrounding Google's AI Models and Responsibility
AI Key Takeaways
- Google's work in AI has faced controversy around responsibility for the capabilities of their language models
- Improving factuality and grounding is crucial for large language models to prevent the spread of disinformation
- Balancing factuality and creativity in language models is a challenge, but advancements are being made
- The goal is to combine the best aspects of current systems, such as creativity and reliability, in future generations of AI systems
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Inside Google’s big AI shuffle — and how it plans to stay competitive, with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis
The Future of AI: Modular Systems and Tool Use
AI Key Takeaways
- Under the hood, AI systems can be broken down into smaller ones with specializations
- The central system acts as a switch statement, routing queries to the appropriate tool
- This approach is a step towards achieving AGI (Artificial General Intelligence)
- Pushing for capabilities like planning, memory, and reasoning is vital for AGI development
- There is a symbiotic relationship between products and research in the pursuit of AGI
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#383 – Mark Zuckerberg: Future of AI at Meta, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp
Zuckerberg on Apple's Vision Pro
AI Key Takeaways
- Apple announced a mixed reality headset called Vision Pro for $3,500 available in early 2024.
- This is a certain level of validation for the mixed reality category, making a lot of people who are fans of their products really consider that.
- The $3,500 price tag may increase demand for the overall space and benefit Quest 3, which is the best one on the market that a lot of people can afford.
- Over time, the companies are just focused on somewhat different things. Apple has always focused on building high-end things, while Quest's focus has been on building things that are accessible to a wider number of people.
- Gaming wasn't a big part of the presentation and different design trade-offs were made between optimizing for gaming or social experiences and entertainment experiences.
- Different use cases were optimized for different companies- Apple optimized for crisp text on a screen, while Quest focuses on social interaction, communication, and being more active.
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Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on AI copilots, disagreeing with OpenAI, and Sydney making a comeback
Microsoft‘s CTO on Elons Musk’s Claim That Microsoft Controls OpenAI
AI Key Takeaways
- Elon Musk claims that Microsoft controls OpenAI, but this is not true, as OpenAI is a partner to Microsoft.
- Microsoft and OpenAI have a set of agreements in place to accomplish goals.
- Machine learning engineers who work inside of Microsoft research aren't controlled by Microsoft or OpenAI in any traditional sense.
- Having an outside party to push on Microsoft is necessary because it helps the company to avoid getting things wrong about their ambition.
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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek
Daniel Ek On The Future of Music and Podcasts With Generative AI
AI Key Takeaways
- There are tens of millions of people recording music and over 100 million people playing some kind of instrument and expressing themselves musically.
- The quality of music rises to the top, becoming even more valuable in the industry, as seen in fine art photography.
- More people may participate in the middle, but the top of the music industry will likely increase in value as well.
- There will likely be other opportunities for the industry to utilize this technology.
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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek
The Power of Geographic Targeting in Early Marketing for Spotify
AI Key Takeaways
- Geographical density played a key role in early Spotify's marketing efforts.
- Early marketing efforts were focused on college cities in the US due to high consumer engagement with music and small geographical areas.
- Benefited from launching geographically specific due to label negotiations, which allowed for saturation in Sweden and the UK first before moving globally.
- Constraining oneself to finding the first audience, even if it is geographically limited, is beneficial for entrepreneurs to revise their approach.
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