Michael Spencer

Talks about exponential tech, national defense, BigTech, OpenAI and Generative AI.

[Michael Spencer @Michael_AI_bro]

xAI Series B Is Historic for AI's Future

What it does is super-charge the global datacenter takeover. @xai

https://t.co/jKci9NDFrf

[Michael Spencer @Michael_AI_bro]

@Noahpinion Are you saying Israel's the pet of the United States?

[Michael Spencer @Michael_AI_bro]

@vkhosla @realDonaldTrump I certainly don't want children with the ethics of Sam Altman either. But lo and behold. Our leaders are like cheap and crafty Napoleons.

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

“We have entered an age where a single human mind cannot comprehend the data that we are gathering about the universe.”

Our VP Research for Science @pushmeet joined @a16z to discuss how AI can help scientists and others with new insights.

Listen now ↓
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[Michael Spencer @Michael_AI_bro]

A dangerous escalation...

https://t.co/j1DPoV3xim

[Michael Spencer @Michael_AI_bro]

When American democracy depends on three swing States, you cannot call it a functional representative democracy.

America doesn't really have a real democracy.

[Michael Spencer @Michael_AI_bro]

Looks like I'll have to @lindayaX quit X, if I write 2,000 posts and get 200 followers who are mostly bots. That's not an adequate user experience for some who writes daily with 300,000 actual readers.

[Michael Spencer @Michael_AI_bro]

@Noahpinion It doesn't even matter considering what an oil exporter the U.S. is becoming. The U.S. is decades behind the rest of the world when it comes to Green energy, EV adoption and even making it practical or affordable.

[Michael Spencer @Michael_AI_bro]

You aren't a "regular company" if you take 10 billion from a cloud provider.

You could argue this isn't even an independent company.

https://t.co/AYsm9HdTp5

[Michael Spencer @Michael_AI_bro]

@bindureddy People talk about agentic AI but even our copilots and search doesn't even work.
Can we please actually build good products before we speculate on what you think will be able to do next.
This era of copilot in chatbots is like a sea of tools people don't even want to use.

[Michael Spencer @Michael_AI_bro]

@eldsjal It's synthetic spam it's not people sharing content though right? I could flood Spotify with synthetic music but that's not me is it.
Even the majority of reactions on Twitter are now bots.

[Michael Spencer @Michael_AI_bro]

@tegmark Why do people never talk about wealth and equality and actually issues people care about?
For the militarization of generative AI we are already seeing with openai's partnership with the Pentagon?
Instead I hear all the lame talking points of years ago.

[Michael Spencer @Michael_AI_bro]

@gdb Not enough traction, not enough daily active users.

Build products people actually need. Build products that have some entertainment value.

[Michael Spencer @Michael_AI_bro]

America is in a k-shaped economy.

This suggests that generative AI will pump value for the top 20% of consumers while stripping more value from the bottom 40%.

So how you view the lobbying of the technology optimism movement, is mostly just a function of your rank.

[Michael Spencer @Michael_AI_bro]

Tell me where the writers of the Atlantic ask for their consent?

Are paid subscriptions even remotely a good idea in this kind of an economy?

https://t.co/3XJwVBz2bN

[Michael Spencer @Michael_AI_bro]

@AravSrinivas It's amusing when a company that's just 14 months old without a product that's distinct, can raise a $6 billion round.
There are so many bots on Twitter I'm afraid it's not the best place to train an AI on.

[Michael Spencer @Michael_AI_bro]

Google is really disrupting itself fairly all on its own?

I've never seen poor leadership so willing to sacrifice their reputation just to test a new product.

https://t.co/iBI56fR3gB

[Michael Spencer @Michael_AI_bro]

@bindureddy The reality is hardly anyone uses AI tools on any regular basis unless they are necessary for their work. Few people have even heard of these things.

[Michael Spencer @Michael_AI_bro]

@kimmonismus Who cares. People don't even use their products on a daily basis. Having weekly or monthly users isn't a thing. They don't have a real business model.

[Michael Spencer @Michael_AI_bro]

@pmddomingos This is a popular rumor among the techno-optimists. But the venture capitalist wouldn't even be successful if there was no regulation.

Because generative AI can't do what it's claimed to be able to do. The ROI is minimal. And companies and individuals are starting to realize it