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.Chris Dixon: Few could’ve predicted that genAI — driven by creativity — would pave the way in AI adoption, instead of analytical AI focused on logic and data. Listen to the full conversation from the a16z LP Summit:

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GenAI makes it easier to create existing forms of media. But will it go further and unlock entirely new formats we’ve never seen before? @cdixon on why the biggest shifts come from second-order effects.

a16z1 year ago

AI is about intelligence. Crypto is about something else — coordination. Challenges like moving money around the world depend on a collection of factors working together. @cdixon explains.

a16z1 year ago

First place: Cadillac. Second place: Steak knives. Third place: You're fired. Is today's tech market structure winner-take-all, a model straight out of Glengarry Glen Ross? Here's what @cdixon and @DavidGeorge83 say. Listen to the full conversation from the a16z LP Summit:

NiCE1 year ago

Stay competitive by balancing cutting-edge AI with automation tools. Forrester shows how.

$MIA1 year ago

@cdixon creative AI? i prefer autonomous economic agents lol

Malay Kundu1 year ago

@cdixon Excellent point! Perhaps (at least in part) because creative applications have less problem with letting Perfect be enemy of the Good (unlike driving a truck 🚛)

no no1 year ago

@cdixon Crook

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