To Talk AI, We First Drank an AI Coke — Nine AI News Stories That Caught Our Eye Recently
January 24, 2024
🚦 Welcome to Crossroads, where we track the industry shifts and entrepreneurial opportunities brought by the new wave of AI technology. "Crossroads" was Steve Jobs's metaphor for Apple — a company standing at the intersection of technology and liberal arts, where great products are born. AI is now transforming every industry, and we seek out, interview, and bring together the "active doers" of the AI era to explore and embrace the new changes and new possibilities.
👦🏻 Host Koji: Co-founder of The Fair and Tangdao, and an active doer diving into AI. Find him on Jike: [a self-introduction from Koji]
👧🏻 Host Ronghui: Works at a tech VC, former Silicon Valley correspondent for Yicai Weekly. Find her on Jike
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In this episode, we discussed:
- How can AI empower consumer brands? Coca-Cola had AI create a soda: "Y3000." Is it any good?
- Japanese AI company Plug's consumer packaging design service
- AI application "AI Tripitaka" — deerpark.ai
- "Bearing AI" — shipping route optimization
- aifund.ai
- AI-powered pizza chain
- Sam Altman (twitter.com) and Andrew Ng (mp.weixin.qq.com) on direction for AI-era entrepreneurs
- Fred Wilson's 2023 recap (avc.xyz) and 2024 predictions (avc.xyz)
- What is RAG? www.elastic.co
Special thanks to:
Editing — Mada
Support — Eric
Correction: At 24:10, "eth" was a slip of the tongue — should be "etf"