Today on the AI Daily Brief, is software dead? Before that in the headlines, why I think

no one wins and everyone loses after the whole dust up around Anthropics new Super Bowl ad.

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And lastly, one more chance, one more request for you to fill out the January AI usage pulse survey.

Again, this is a survey we're doing to try to figure out what models were most used, what use cases were most prevalent, where people got the most value, and generally put some real numbers and real experience around how we're all using AI. You can find it at AIDailybrief.aI, and it'll be closing at the end of the day on Friday. Thanks to everyone who has participated, can't wait to share what we've learned. Now, one last note, I will fully admit that today's headlines is A, not really a headline,

it's just about the, it's just about the Super Bowl story, and B is way, way more ranty than my

normal. There is a lot more op-ed than I normally put into this show. I unfortunately think

that the impact of Anthropic Super Bowl ads, if anything at all, is likely to be quite negative

for the industry. But hey, there's plenty of critique to go around. Now, I will not blame you at all

if you decide to skip over that because who cares? I certainly think the Is Software Dead

conversation is the much more pertinent one going forward. So however you decide to consume this episode,

I appreciate it, and let's dive in. Trigger warning. If you work at either Anthropic or Open AI, you are probably not going

to like the beginning of this episode. Yesterday, Anthropic absolutely took over the AI

conversation when they dropped their first ever set of Super Bowl commercials. The commercials

do not talk about the basically magic wand we now have in our pockets. They don't talk about all the things you can do. They don't talk about all the value

that AI could be bringing to people's lives. Instead, all four commercials in the campaign

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