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Michael Spencer's avatar

Thank you that's an interesting way of thinking about the future. If VC funds are involved in picking the winners it makes sense that they are also becoming a bit more deliberate with the accelerators. I love to know more about how the accelerators and funds are connected regarding the social network.

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Ruben Hassid's avatar

AI’s no longer about shiny tools but about infrastructure.

the list shows the shift from “use AI” to “build on AI”.

and the next big wins won’t come from just prompting better, but from turning those prompts into real products and systems.

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JimmyTay Trinh's avatar

Systems and products that could wipe humanity out.. is that the products and services you want from AI infrastructure? please wrap your head around this awareness.

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Chris Tottman's avatar

All 5 are relevant. Agent Infrastructure & Full AI Native Vertical Stack for a given pro service ( not explicitly in this 5) appear to be big to me

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Hugo Rauch's avatar

Nothing on climate and energy.. come on

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JimmyTay Trinh's avatar

Why is YC not talking about investing in AI companies for governance, safety and security for humanity? For the social good? Let’s hear that.

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Astrid Pilla's avatar

Great article, I think we are headed to a massive building phase as well, and those who have been building all this time in AI & shipping, glance around because there will be huge opportunities for partnerships and alliances.

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ToxSec's avatar

Pretty interesting take. I go back and forth on exactly where ai is developmentally.

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Yaro Celis's avatar

Great takes here. I've heard from a few writers that AI is not yet responsible for the recent layoffs. Still, if one person can be as productive as 10 when using the right tools efficiently and effectively, and AI is your best consultant, lots of workers may no longer be necessary.

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JimmyTay Trinh's avatar

That’s correct, and AI poses even further existential threats.. what about when a robot goes rogue and cannot have deductive reason to save humans ? What then ? Forget about Jobs.. let’s talk about our Lives at stake if we don’t build something to mitigate this. Just Google AI existential threats and become aware.

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Pawel Brodzinski's avatar

On "video indistinguishable from reality":

The Oatmeal: "AI art is an interesting technology because despite its growing popularity, nobody seems to want it. Artists hate using it. Consumers hate consuming it. And yet it thrives."

I like the take. A big question: how does our attitude (as consumers) change when we know something is AI-generated?

A follow-up question to Y Combinator: how does it change the outlook for companies going all-in on AI-generated content?

Also, my regular argument applies. Imagine we have 100x as many video games. We still have only 1x time and 1x attention. A simple fact that we can generate a lot more of [something] automatically means that any instance of [something] has way less value.

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