Jason Shen

Generative AI combines the encoding of vast corpuses of text and images—which act as training data—and a series of machine learning algorithms to turn text prompts into incredibly creative, intelligent, and useful visual and text responses.

I would rank this among the 3 most transformative pieces of technology I've encountered in my lifetime

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when we first started @readwise, all i did for the first summer was write personalized cold emails to anyone who'd expressed pain around their Kindle highlights online it was grueling, rejection-laden work, but in July 2017 we celebrated our first "best day ever": the inimitable @craigmod... See more

Like girls, boys openly express their desire for genuine connections with others, including with boys. They reveal the human capacity for mutual understanding, care, and empathy and demonstrate remarkably astute abilities to read the human world. Yet as they reach middle to late adolescence and as expectations of manhood intensify, they begin to... See more

• Human labor will be in the "Safe Zone" in the social, unstructured environments where it will be hard to train an AI to train pets, offer physical therapy, and style someone's hair and face.


• Meanwhile, structured, asocial work is most easily replaced, such as fast food cooks, garment factory workers, and cashiers, he calls this the "Danger Zone"


• The

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