Artificial intelligence
Naming might seem superficial compared to the technical complexity behind AI, but it’s the first interaction people have with the product. Get the name right, and you win. Get it wrong, and you leave users hovering, uncertain, frustrated.
AI’s identity crisis
because the R1 launching unfinished and useless is actually exactly what the AI boom is all about. Finding — and automating — new ways to get people to pay for worse versions of what they already have.
Garbage Day • Just keep paying us, bro
Back in April 2023, I posted a list of principles for creating with AI, attempting to separate fact from fiction and find some universal truths about working with AI.
How did it hold up?
For the most part, I think it stood up well. But there’s one thing I got very wrong and I’m furious about it.
Ask it about music, and it can write you lyrics in the style of whoever you’d like. But it’s never listened to a great song, never heard one right when it needed to be heard.
I don’t talk about it much but I do work at Google and I just want to contribute, as a small addendum to the wider conversation about AI, and how much it sucks, and how stupid it is, and how if you make garlic oil like it tells you to you will give botulism to your entire family -
we don’t use it.
like internally. we don’t use it.
I mean that we... See more
we don’t use it.
like internally. we don’t use it.
I mean that we... See more