There is an all out war for search supremacy right now between two trillion dollar companies, with one having everything to win and the other everything to lose. In those circumstances a standard VC model of buying growth does not work even if you have a huge war chest, as you will be outspent no matter how big your investors are.
If youāve read this far, then Iāll tell you the honest truth: we donāt actually know what weāre doing. Artificial intelligence is a vast and complex topic, and Iām very skeptical of anyone that claims theyāve got it all figured out. Indeed, Faraday felt the same way about electricityāhe wasnāt even sure it was going to be of any import:
Twitter is not a Silicon Valley giant. Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube are tremendously attractive to the average person; Twitter never was and never will be. But it loomed large in the lives of journalists and was over-represented in activist circles as well. Images, videos, and stories about unrest, protests, riots, and police crackdowns reached... See more
Note how different Appleās strategy is from the vision in Metaās and MagicLeapās pitches. These companies point towards radically different visions of computing, in which interfaces are primarily three-dimensional and intrinsically spatial. Operations have places; the desired paradigm is more object-oriented (āthingsā in the āmeta-verseā) than... See more
My take on it is that fun comes from interacting with a system with enough depth for interesting stuff to emerge - maybe even things that will surprise you as a designer. I find that this happens when you get a few simple systems, get them working well independently, and then find as many ways as possible to interconnect them.