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Google AI, or ChatGPT, feels a lot like social media. Do you remember Facebook before it became a cesspool of meaningless algorithmically chosen dumb videos? Up to 5 years ago, it was a cesspool where you had useless conversations with your dumb friends and, much worse, their dumb friends, people who didn’t have a clue about who you were but who felt they needed to jump in your exchanges to call you dumb or racist or a boomer or whatever just because they were bored or sad or thought they could…

I used to love the Cluetrain Manifesto. What was not to love? I was young and rather clueless, and with a rebellious streak. Here come The Beatles, and they tell you that the ways of the world are wrong, which was true, and that everything will change. Which was false. Quite naturally, I hopped on the Cluetrain. It served me well for some time, so no hard feelings. And yet, it’s incredible how different things turned out to be! We went from… #62 Markets do not want to talk to flacks and…

No fewer than 9 AI startups (of some kind) looking for investors on one of the more credible crowdfunding websites. (How much) do those two magic letters help?