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François Chollet

@fchollet

Deep learning @google. Creator of Keras. Author of 'Deep Learning with Python'. Opinions are my own.

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We need a 'where are they now' series about the developers who claimed in February-March 2023 that they had become '100x' more productive thanks to LLMs. Surely by now they must have released multiple new apps in production and multiplied their earnings by a large factor?

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People used to buy CDs, now they buy streaming subscriptions. But the revenue of the music industry is back to its pre-Napster peak.

If you're a generative AI company, your goal should be to become Spotify, not Napster.

People used to buy CDs, now they buy streaming subscriptions. But the revenue of the music industry is back to its pre-Napster peak. If you're a generative AI company, your goal should be to become Spotify, not Napster.
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Writing and being read is a tool of disproportionate power, a magical lever that can move the world at the touch of your fingers. Code is the only other thing that comes close to it.

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Both journalism and teaching suffer from a similar problem -- they aren't rewarded proportionately to their importance to society, and as a result we often end up with journalists and teachers that aren't very good at what they do.

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To create the perfect user interface, develop it in a fast feedback loop where the feedback is provided by an 8-year-old.

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Generative AI is a pretty incredible technology -- it's a tool to navigate the in-between space of all human cultural artifacts. That's new and powerful. But most people are excited about it (or fearful of it) for the wrong reasons -- they project on it their own delusional…

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When you're young, you think that you're invulnerable and that you have infinite time ahead of you. Truth is, you're not, and you don't.

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