InvestAI etc. - 10/1/2024

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Topics discussed this week:

AI and ad-funded content

AI changes the importance of “what” vs. “how”

AI is a top-down business model

Should LLMs be trained in multiple languages?

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AI links to consider

Multilingual robots? Or will they all just “speak” English? Created with Grok-2

AI and ad-funded content

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SAMI >

ChatGPT is dramatically changing the way people use Google search, which will almost certainly affect the business models of internet companies going forward. Michael Mignano is a tech entrepreneur who points out, correctly (and obviously), the end of the ad-funded content, “the business model that funded the internet”.

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RICHARD >

I think he’s missing the crucial reason Google was so transformative: the insight that physical products and services are a form of content too—and the AdWords-based monetization that Google enabled. Google let you easily find people who are interested in your product or service.

When people use Google to find an answer to a question (“how t…