“Because if you don’t trust the founders that you work with (…), why would you ever invest in them?”

As the easy money dries up, investors start looking more closely into what kind of startups they are investing in. That’s actually a very healthy development.

#Sundayread #Readingtip #SiliconValley #MakingFutureReality

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/15/business/silicon-valley-fraud.html?algo=editorial_importance_fy_email_news&block=4&campaign_id=142&emc=edit_fory_20230415&fellback=false&imp_id=693418973&instance_id=90321&nl=for-you&nlid=137884534&pool=pool%2Fa2fc9efa-4a9f-46ae-8506-967a38fc2099&rank=2&regi_id=137884534&req_id=233304198&segment_id=130565&surface=for-you-email-news&user_id=e47b31f0c7041a02e8bcd9d94df0d265&variant=0_edimp_fye_news_dedupe

The metaverse never really began - and yet it is already over? The answer is in one of the last sentences of this article: "All this is not to deny the likelihood that, as technology advances, the internet will become more immersive. But this will happen gradually and messily (...)."

And that is exactly how we will find ourselves in the metaverse at some point - and hardly have noticed it.

#sundayread #metaverse #makingfuturereality

https://www.ft.com/content/bddec314-3f4c-4296-ae6f-eb2a5328c109

GenerativeAI is amazing and underwhelming at the same time. This article gives a really good account of what ChatGPT can really do and what we should expect!

👉 https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

#sundayread #generativeAI #chatgpt

For those of you who want to take a break from generative #AI and read about the good old #metaverse again (😉), here's a roundup of #AR trends for 2023 by @tomemrich. #readingtip

#smartglasses #AR #makingfuturereality

„Hallucinating“ language models? Amongst the whole hype around large language models (e.g. ChatGPT) a very interesting article from MIT Technology Review. Suggestion: Read it and make your own conclusions… 🤔

#chatgpt #AI

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/08/31/1058800/what-does-gpt-3-know-about-me/?utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement&utm_medium=tr_social&utm_source=LinkedIn