The tech bros freaking out that they can’t get any work done because Chat GPT is down is what unskilled labour looks like.

#techtrends #ai #yearahead #technology

"If you’re not staring into people’s eyes and in the agency of strangers for the majority of your day, you’re going to end up lonely and depressed.”
6/6 End of Thread

"(…)[Advice to young people] Nothing ever that wonderful is going to happen to you on a screen. The home, remote work, and faux relationships online, they’re not a feature, they’re a bug." 5/6

"In my opinion this is the Biggest threat to society right now is loneliness, fueled by a profit incentive of sequestering you from the rest of society so you spend even more time alone in your basement staring at a screen in an algorithm (girlfriend.ai, character.ai).
4/6

"you don’t need friends, just go on reddit or discord, you don’t need a job, you trade stocks and crypto; why go through the effort of having a plan, getting in shape, go through humiliation, trying to demonstrate excellence, getting out such that you have a romantic partner when you have porn?" 3/6

"And I think the biggest threat of AI is something we don’t talk about a lot. And I would argue that it’s manifested in current events. And that is, it gives individuals, especially young men, some sense that they can have a facsimile of life in digital platforms:" 2/6

Scott Galloway on his Predictions 2025, talking about latest trends and their risks, before going into the actual 2025 Predictions, December 12, live on Zoom.

[Live transcription by myself, so it might have minor errors] 1/6

There's 25 million users on Substack as of yesterday.
Hi guys, I'm Francisca! I barely come here and I don't really know how to create a thread that makes sense.
I didn't have Twitter, I only created it when it was X, and I left it soon after. I write about Innovation for everyone, and other topics

oh my god, yes. I just wrote about this over on my side (but instead of aiming it at Open AI, I aimed at other companies... and their "AI-Infused" tools... I'm sorry, is AI a new herbal tea?)

The point is: Empathize, Empathize, Empathize! with the REAL user.
People are so worried with getting seen in the trend, and stop wondering if there's a need, an actual, real need, for AI-embedded platforms. We just need the main product to work! That's all we ask for!

Bonus 2/2: And that's why I don't actually get happy you have embedded AI, yay! Honestly, if you do that and stop caring about the product performance as a whole, then were you even being an adequate PM?

Bonus 1/2: Judging by how a lot of people use AI, I can't trust that all products are using my data wisely, or that you're not further training AI models with my questions, my queries, or my business processes. I don't know it, because you don't announce it adequately.

As soon as I see that these things are being leveraged without any second-thought into whether it is or not needed, I just feel disconnected to the product. And that’s where I think PMs are failing sometimes.

Love,
An internal PM that also needs to infuse AI - but does so only on what needs it! 6/6

Judging by how your marketing is affecting the messaging and you “scream” the equivalent that you're in the AI bandwagon through banners and e-mails, you just scream that you’re trying out trends before trusting something. 5/6

I don’t care that you know have AI insights: I care that they are insights I can trust, not hyper-personalized to the point of feeling surveilled.
I don’t care that you have AI-infused things like we’re talking about herbal teas: I care that as user of a tool, you empathized with me. 4/6

Here’s my Anti-User Stories:
[As a future former user of your tool] I don’t care if your product has AI Chatbot what I care is that I have a problem that needs to be solved.

3/6

I didn’t buy a newspaper with a lightbulb contraption: I put a light on my reading area.

Treat AI-embedded things the same.
2/6

My thoughts on the constant: AI Product Manager and AI-embedded in everything I see…

Listen, when the lightbulb was invented, we didn’t put lightbulbs in everything. To my knowledge, light bulbs were only put in the places it makes sense.
1/6

I say, it might’ve been.

Connecting the dots between different industries can be a great source of inspiration.

Curious? Then check this out:

techisaiswithinnovation.substack.com/p/without-ol...

One of my favorites posts from the last two weeks:

The movie She came to me was such a funny, interesting movie I watched this year, that it made a double-feature in my newsletter!
Curious? Then here you go: techisaiswithinnovation.substack.com/p/knot-knowi...

OpenAI's Grifting Uncovered and More Let's go to war OpenAI. Partner with Andurii, Palantir and let's see what AI risks you incarnate.

OpenAI is raising prices for access to its best models. It's also becoming part of the new AI focused military industrial complex.

Where is this likely to lead?

open.substack.com/pub/aisuprem...

Any time I need to create a poll for my team, I try really hard to avoid asking them to type things themselves (I opt for choice, if possible), because I can know who's typing it from the mistakes they write, or the length of the sentences.

Is that how you were called to analyze the data yourself?

This is on the other social, but I just wanted to say that it's with readers like the amazing ones from the past weeks that I've learned a lot of things:
- Community matters.
- You don't know everything, and it's how you feel about that that defines you.
- Go for quality, not numbers.

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This post doesn't have a title... (yet) until it came to me. An exploratory article on unsent, still being perfected thoughts, songs, or movie plots, or innovative ideas at work

"Creativity is messy, nonlinear, and sometimes uncomfortable. But the best ideas come when you’re just doing something else." Let’s dive into this week’s #InnovationFromWithin. 🚶‍♂️💡⛴️

More here: open.substack.com/pub/techisai...

Thanks for the repost Anita! I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

💯 true! “But I’m also the sum of all the places I’ve been: the ones that felt like home and the ones that pushed me beyond what was comfortable. I’ve learned that we’re far more resilient than we give ourselves credit for. We adapt. We grow. We break and we heal. And through it all, we keep moving.”

Yes, Therese, exactly! I'm glad you enjoyed that quote :) I had many friends tell me they could never do what I did. But I just think: Even our comfort zones were once a scary place to be/do/have those actions! We could be having better but our "comfort" zone prevents us from accessing it.

Why moving away sometimes is the way to move forward Thoughts on innovation with a very personal take on it

On Embracing Discomfort: Leaving my comfort zone taught me the value of discomfort. It’s a signal, not a threat, and a sign that maybe it’s time to grow. Movement, in life or work, means facing the uncertain. And it’s worth it!

techisaiswithinnovation.substack.com/p/why-moving...