Diego Bironzo

Market + media intelligence pro, working at the crossroads between comms & analytics. Interested in music, economics, 📚 and 🎬. Italian. Views obvs my own.

[Diego Bironzo @dbironzo]

@British_Airways As it’s a digital voucher for a delayed flight, can you not pass it on internally and have it resent please? I won’t have time to discuss with a member of staff I’m afraid

[Diego Bironzo @dbironzo]

@British_Airways hi, can you help please? Received a ‘Your refreshment voucher’ which contains no link or voucher!

[Lindsey Hilsum @lindseyhilsum]

NYT headline for the ages

[Diego Bironzo @dbironzo]

"The conversation about AI is a marketplace of competing science fiction narratives"

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

I really want people to see the story above the story here, which is that whether you're reading Citrini, or listening to Jamie Dimon at a cocktial party, the conversation about AI is a marketplace of competing science fiction narratives.

That's not to say I think the technology is a parlor trick. But rather that the level of uncertainty is so high, and the quality and supply of real-world, real-time information about AI's macroeconomic effects so paltry, that very serious conversations about AI are often more literary than genuinely analytical.

And I think that observation sets up another important point: I feel lucky to be able to have conversations about the frontier of AI with executives and builders at frontier labs; economists at AI conferences; investors in AI; and other AI folks at off-the-record dinners where important truths can theoretically be shared without risk. I can't emphasize enough that "nobody knows anything" is about as close to the reality here as three words are going to get you.

Nobody what's going to happen this year, or next year, or the year after that. There is no secret cigar-filled room of people who have unique access to some authentic postcard from the future. When you drill down underneath the bluster, the boosterism, the fear, the anxiety, what's there at the bottom is genuine uncertainty, a vacuum into which storytelling is flooding. The frontier labs don't really know what they're building exactly, and economists don't really know how to model the thing they claim they're building (genuine recursively self-improving AI agency isn't really analogous to something we know about).

I wish more people talked about and thought about this subject thru that sort of lens: We're trying to model the economy-wide effects of a technology whose properties the frontier labs can't even really describe yet. Whatever you think about AI today, be prepared to change your mind soon.

[nightly moth @nightly_moth]

Bob Dylan and his band with A Rainy Night In Soho as the final song tonight in Dublin.
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Wonderful scenes at the end—Bob stood up playing the piano towards the end of the song and the whole audience stood with him. Thank you Bob @bobdylan.

[Diego Bironzo @dbironzo]

@Oxford_Tube hi there, I just had trouble activating a pre-paid ticket in the app. Tried several times and in the end had to buy a day return instead. Sure enough by the time I found a seat the ticket was active so now I’ve paid twice for the same journey. Can you help please?

[Father John Misty @fatherjohnmisty]

savory bone broth sorbet in a chilled pistachio-acid jús topped with braised lavender and equitably sourced candied orchid leaf curated in partnership with permanent serenity micro candle collective all proceeds go directly to the immediate dismantling of global empire

[Alex Vacca @itsalexvacca]

BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying.

Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt.

Here's what 4 months of data revealed:

(hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)

[Diego Bironzo @dbironzo]

Some look better than others, but I had a lot of fun creating these. This content was generated using @OpenAI's ChatGPT and is not intended for any purpose other than bit of silliness and light-hearted entertainment.

[Diego Bironzo @dbironzo]

Ok, I've seen some lovely tributes to the first ever North American Pope, but there seems to be a distinct lack of content from Dylan fans... so I thought I'd step in with my humble contribution. Enjoy!😉
#BobDylan #AmericanPope
[all #AmericanPopeSeries images via ChatGPT]

[Diego Bironzo @dbironzo]

Talking of which, @poliziadistato any plans to stop your employees acting like playground bullies?

[Diego Bironzo @dbironzo]

@MiAirports hi Malpensa, why are your border control people so rude & useless? Earlier today they threatened me and my family not to let us through as we travel with different passports (Italian and British), which is of course nonsense. Very stressful. Shameful ****.

[Father John Misty @fatherjohnmisty]

no one tell Cher about my other songs

[Bob Dylan @bobdylan]

Saw Nick Cave in Paris recently at the Accor Arena and I was really struck by that song Joy where he sings “We’ve all had too much sorrow, now it the time for joy.” I was thinking to myself, yeah that’s about right.

[Diego Bironzo @dbironzo]

Very special night @RoyalAlbertHall 🤩 Bob Dylan live in London, Nov 14, 2024 - here’s a playlist with the songs @bobdylan played tonight, incl. some deep live cuts 👇
https://t.co/dA40S031i6

[Diego Bironzo @dbironzo]

@ConnollyBen @felicebrothers @EBallroomCamden Abundance & Teeth in the Tabloids from a 2023 bandcamp only release (Abundance in particular sounded bloody great!), and then an older song called White Limo. It really was a fantastic gig, enjoy!!

[Diego Bironzo @dbironzo]

What a joy to catch the @felicebrothers at @EBallroomCamden tonight! Brilliant gig and a great antidote to yesterday’s shitty political news ❤️
Tunes from their setlist (minus the 3 Spotify hasn’t got) here: https://t.co/WIbIOzZK6l 🤟😎