Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Monday, January 30th, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Appray ChatGPT. Prepare yourself for the generative AI deluge

Amazon says the free lunch for grocery delivery is over more speculation about

foldable iPad San Francisco wants Waymo and Cruz to pump the brakes on their self-driving car

experiments because the actual cars have literally been pumping the brakes too

much and my wager on whether or not 2023 will actually go down as the year that AI broke through.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

So there are a bunch of parallel storylines running right now with the sudden generative AI

mania. There's the whole VC investment angle. I could give you about a half a dozen behind

the scenes rumors about big funding rounds that are

coming all at the same time right now for various players in the space and of course there's

the whole narrative of people feeling around in the dark right now trying to find

out as we discussed on the most recent bonus

episode if you can actually build a viable business on top of this stuff and if so what that

might look like but another very interesting angle here is this.

The big existing incumbent platform angle,

everyone in tech has an AI team.

Everyone has been doing AI research

for the better part of a decade now, sometimes as a loss leader

for their cloud business experiment, sometimes as a just in case this stuff becomes real

insurance policy, well, it's sort of become real or at least real enough all the sudden.

So that sound that you are hearing is a ton of major tech platforms being like, crap,

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