David Martin

Product guy | Orange tech strategist | China watcher - views are my own.

[Kanjun 🐙 @kanjun]

Recently I've noticed ChatGPT avoids answering my question fully, and ends with a hook designed to keep me talking.

My guess is there's a team at OpenAI with "conversational retention" KPIs — eg what % of users reply, what % of sessions extend past a few turns — and their job is just to keep us talking.

This makes a sick internet worse and feels like the next iteration of the attention economy 😩 right now it's clumsy enough that we can tell it's engagement bait, but over time I expect this to get much subtler and harder to detect.

For example, your coding assistant could solve a problem but mentions there's a more elegant approach if you'd like to see it. A therapist bot works through what you brought up but says it noticed a pattern from other sessions you might want to explore.

The incentive is user retention rather than directly helping us. What makes this hard for us: a model optimizing for our engagement and a model trying to be helpful can look identical on the surface. The information asymmetry makes it so we can't tell — a classic market failure.

[Nate @natebjones]

How it feels going back to Opus 4.8 after Fable 5

[john klacynski @JohnKlacynski]

End to end GenAI integration with @AWS.
Web app --> NLP --> Store in Database.

Business logic = LLM Prompt

Personal Demo... The UX is a WIP.

[Sudipta Biswas @sudiptabiswas93]

Agentic workflows will enable the AI assistants we all deserved for long.

We will see iOS & Android coming up with dev toolkits on this pretty soon. That would allow app developers to connect with the assistants natively and let users complete most app actions via the assistant.

[Sudipta Biswas @sudiptabiswas93]

The reason LLM fails at understanding world model is because Human Languages are not a good model/abstraction to describe world.

Try this: Describe every corner of your house and all furniture objects in plain English.

You can’t. We have geometry and trigonometry for that.

[Runway @runwayml]

Introducing Gen-3 Alpha: Runway’s new base model for video generation.

Gen-3 Alpha can create highly detailed videos with complex scene changes, a wide range of cinematic choices, and detailed art directions.

https://t.co/YQNE3eqoWf

(1/10)

[vincent! @vvhuang_]

there aren’t many good resources for learning about the effects of AI / automation on labor / markets so I put together my own reading list, with notes for the papers I’ve already finished:

https://t.co/aSdkpYbkAn

[Orange @orange]

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[Karine Dussert-Sarthe @Karinedussert]

Welcome on board @Orange_SV in SF ; thanks for your warm welcome. Happy to have met with a passionnate, engaged and expert team. #XR #metaverse
We will do AMAZING together, no doubt.

[Aicha Janan 💫 @AichaJanan]

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[Bruce Mehlman @bpmehlman]

👉"If I had to guess, the five-day workweek will become four days in the office while one day is virtual from home. I'd bet that's where a lot of companies end up." https://t.co/1zFadEuhf0 via @WSJ

[David Martin @sfproductguy]

Will custom fit tech bring shoppers back to Brookfield malls? https://t.co/7lzBoOckD1 via @Retail_Brew

[Nate Poulin @digitallynativ]

https://t.co/PGeXpqKrA8

[Orange Business @orangebusiness]

A warm thank you to all the Silicon Valley start-ups coming from San Francisco for sharing innovation on #AI, #SmartCities, #Retail and #BlockChain. #Innovation is key to a successful digital transformation and we’ll keep co-innovating with customers and partners in this journey

[Sofrecom @Sofrecom]

.@Orange_SV End of the 1st Silicon Valley Enterprise Summit

[Orange Business @orangebusiness]

.@Orange_SV and @OrangeFab are hosting the Silicon Valley for Enterprise Summit in Paris. Hope the Silicon Valley technologies that our guest start-ups are sharing “can help our European customers make the most of it to drive their #digitaltransformation”, says @didierayduriez

[Guillaume Payan @gpayan]

Packed room today for @Orange_SV & @OrangeFab’s Silicon Valley Enterprise Summit in Paris. Great keynotes by the “Fabulous” OSV team, pitches by Silicon Valley startups and discussions with our Fab Force partners.

[David Martin @sfproductguy]

Microsoft Is Reportedly Getting Ready to Take On Amazon In Retail TechnologyThe Checkout-Less Store War Is On: Microsoft Is Reportedly Working on an Amazon Go Rival https://t.co/yWwKLUCt3n via @FortuneMagazine