links: thinking about AI and the future
Enjoyed this post on AI. There’s a lot of noise out there and it’s hard to take it all in, so I enjoyed this. “AI taking over the world” is something I’m less worried about than say…climate change, asymmetric warfare/polarization/inequality, USD collapse, etc. But, hey, that’s me.
Google Maps: the giant sleeps.
Update: 11/10 — Not surprisingly Facebook seems to have out-executed Google to market on big parts of this. Alphabet (née Alphabet) has some great $-churning businesses: Search/Adwords, Display/Adsense, and YouTube. Diane Green’s cloud efforts, Waymo, and DeepMind most often get labeled as the “next initiative likely to turn major.” But what about Google Maps? I’m long Google’s stock and […]
The Defiant Ones
Yes, this post is just 100% an excuse for me to use this photo of Snoop and me. But, also… I binged The Defiant Ones last night. So. damn. good. The four four hours flew by. The engine of the story is entrepreneurship. Both Dre and Jimmy are hustlers who scrapped their way up from the bottom. […]