Noteworthy Bits

Google CEO, Sundar Pichai, on the State of AI and the Future of the Web from The Verge

In this interview, Nilay Patel from The Verge talks with Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Alphabet and Google, about AI and its impact on search and the web. They discuss topics such as the relationship between language and intelligence in AI systems, the changing incentives for content creators and publishers in the era of AI-generated content, and Google's approach to AI development in search and beyond. Pichai shares his perspective on the opportunities and challenges presented by AI, and envisions a future web that is more multimodal, interactive, and dynamically composed with the help of AI.

The End of Software by Chris Paik

Chris is the Co-founder and General Partner of Pace Capital and was previously a partner at Thrive Capital. While we wouldn’t go so far as to suggest we’ve reached the end of software, this is certainly a thought provoking post. Chris suggests that just as the internet reduced the cost of creating and distributing media content to zero, leading to the rise of user-generated content platforms that disrupted traditional media companies, large language models (LLMs) will drive the cost of creating software to zero, resulting in a proliferation of software that will disrupt traditional software companies and give rise to new platforms that control distribution.

Say Hello to My New AI Marketer: How Gen AI-Based Software Is Advancing Marketing and Sales from a16z

Looking to move beyond ChatGPT and try some task specific AI tools? The team at Andreessen Horowitz provides a nice overview on AI marketing tools. “Marketing is particularly well suited for adopting generative AI because it is an iterative, creative, and dynamic practice that relies on the types of media — texts, images, video — that have driven LLM development.”