3 receipts from MAICON Day 1:
“The risk is not that AI does the work. The risk is that AI does the work and we never learn from it.” – Paul Roetzer quoting Tobi Lutke
“In the Google Era, visible = recommended. In the AI Era, visible != recommended.” – Wil Reynolds
“America now spends more on data centers than office space.” – Andrew Yang
What all three of these receipts from #MAICON26 day one have in common is that they all overturn common perceptions about the status quo.
Paul reminds us that the tradition of apprenticeship to mastery breaks down when you no longer have apprentices, or at least far fewer of them.
Wil reminds us that AI is just as likely to tell someone not to buy from you. You may be mentioned, you may have a brand appearance, but that appearance may well be ChatGPT telling customers to avoid you. (and boy, does it)
Andrew reminds us that spending priorities can get so abstracted in the noisy news that we don’t see the big picture. AI itself is a multi-trillion dollar investment planetwide, more than any recent technological initiative, more than fighting COVID, more than fighting wars and military budgets.
Moving forward, the theme of MAICON, is dangerous if you can’t see the road ahead, if you’re steering the car by looking out the rear view mirror to navigate. You won’t see the next curve in time to adapt to it.
And if you’re driving at top speed while looking only through the rear view mirror, things aren’t going to go well for you.
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