ERIC KIM AI ESSAY

The convergence of social media & AI

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So a development or thought, that’s kind of interesting to me… Once again seeing the full stack genius of Elon Musk, full integration theory: take all the things that you have built together, and …

So a development or thought, that’s kind of interesting to me… Once again seeing the full stack genius of Elon Musk, full integration theory:

take all the things that you have built together, and cross pollinate and combine them all. 

So one thing I believe that is highly highly highly underappreciated by the market or the world in general is the genius of Elon Musk purchasing Twitter X, and now combining it with Grok. I think the tricky thing is realistically, ChatGPT is and probably is the better product because, it entered the market for quicker, and I’m sure all the accusations that Elon Musk says about Sam Altman are true. And this is a tricky thing, ChatGPT is like iPhone and grok is like  android; even my Apple voice dictate doesn’t register “grok” well.

I also think the tricky thing is, especially… Because Elon Musk is a nerd, it looks like all these nerds who read hitchhikers guide to the galaxy explicitly know what grok is.,, but for the rest of us… We would prefer and probably would prefer the nomenclature of ChatGPT more.

Anyways, the reason why I think this is important or interesting is because, for the first time ever it appears that we are seeing an interesting convergence of AI and social media. In fact I had this thought maybe a few years ago; the only ethical social media would be a social media that you paid a monthly subscription for, aka X.

In fact, in terms of just like economics, X (formerly known as Twitter), might be actually the most important platform on the planet in terms of finance bitcoin bitcoin relay news etc. And ever since Elon Musk bought it, the new developers have made it like 1 trillion times better than it was before. It’s actually cool now. 

so why does this matter

I just thought about my website and my blog and stuff… Essentially, I’m very certain that my website and blog will not live on forever because, all this Internet technology is so fragile. Yet, assuming that grok it’s going to get integrated with X, and also with SpaceX and we have some sort of like intergalactic space AI… Then the good news is probably whatever you upload to X will not die. 

What’s also interesting is because, your Grok account linked with your X account, whenever you post things perhaps images videos, certainly essay an article articles… What then happens is, Grok learns from the articles and essays and the things you post,… which makes it a virtuous reinforcing machine learning loop.

I’ll give you an example… Whenever I have ChatGPT try to write in my voice, never really gets it quite right. Frankly speaking it doesn’t really sound like me.

Yet when I get grok to do it it actually does seem like it kinda does sound like me.

Which which?

OK assuming that you’re trying to like maximize your productivity to the Max or whatever… Having both seems the best strategy. In fact, the most highly effective people that I’ve met, like my friend Darren Wong who works at Disney, I was really shocked, he’s so smart… He has both two phones on him, one iPhone and one Google pixel because you could leverage the best of both worlds. Like for example… It actually does seem that Gmail Google calendar and Google maps, which we are all dependent on, actually legitimately runs a lot better on android, Google pixel. But for photos contacts, FaceTime and everything else… Certainly iPhone is the better bet.

And also… if you go to Asia southeast Déjà Vietnam etc.… Like my friend Chu Viet Ha,,, they are insanely intelligent, it seems that the average person has at least two phones; it’s kind of an interesting status symbol, whereas we Americans we are so myopic and simple minded, we only have one iPhone, I think it’s because the way subscriptions work here are a lot more complex, whereas in Vietnam it is so insanely easy to get like a five dollar SIM card and anywhere where you go to in the streets. It’s hilarious you’ll see people with three phones or four phones etc.

And the more I think about technology life and stuff in general… It actually does seem that the truth is, having some sort of like Hybrid or multiplicity is probably the best strategy. For example, if you just had one vehicle for the rest of your life, they had to take off all the boxes of everything, the most superior and supreme vehicle would probably be like a Prius plug-in hybrid. Why? I think if you combine the gas and the plug-in battery charge all the way, on a single tank and charge combined I think you could get like 660 miles? That’s insane.

And as much as I love Elon Musk and Tesla, until an electric vehicle or a Tesla could charge to 100% faster than I could fill up my Prius at Arco which is like 45 seconds,… I think Hybrid vehicles will still win. Why? Once again best of both worlds. And I think the truth is you could get away a lot with a Tesla, especially if you have a house that you could charge it every day… Also auto pilot seems insanely awesome, but still… My sister and brother-in-law who both have my mom‘s old 2006 Hyundai Sonata gas car, and there relatively new Tesla model three… When they go snowboarding in Mammoth, which vehicle do they take? The old gasoline Hyundai Sonata.

Cameras

So currently I think… The only interesting camera on the market is probably the Ricoh monochrome,,, it’s kind of like the best of both worlds, a black-and-white only camera, that’s also digital? That’s actually insane interesting, once again, best of both worlds.

I think in modern day times because we are so inundated with all this new technology, there’s also this funny yearning for like the simplicity minimalism of the past, few options, and I think we also like this idea of a creative constraint, not having color.