https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBSLUbpJvwA
"Do tape recorders ring a bell?"
There are so many things I don't want to do. I don't want to read the internet and social media anymore - I'd rather just have a digest of high signal with a little bit of serendipity.
Instead of bookmarking a fun physics concept to come back to later, I could have an agent find more and build a nice reading list for me.
It's kind of how I think of self-driving cars. When I can buy a car with Waymo (or whatever), jump in overnight with the wife and the dogs, and wake up on the beach to breakfast, it will have arrived in a big way. I'll work remotely, traveling around the US. Visit the Grand Canyon, take a work call, then off to Sedona. No driving, traffic, just work or leisure the whole time.
True AI agents will be like this and even better.
Ads, for sure, are fucked. If my pane of glass comes with a baked in model for content scrubbing, all sorts of shit gets wiped immediately: ads, rage bait, engagement bait, low effort content.
AdBlock was child's play. We're going to have kernel-level condoms for every pixel on screen. Thinking agents and fast models that vaporize anything we don't like.
The only thing that matters is that we have thin clients we control. And I think we stand a chance of that.
The ads model worked because of disproportionate distribution, platform power, and verticalization. Nobody could build competing infra to deal with it. That won't be the case in the future.
How does Facebook know the person calling their API is human? How do they know the feed being scrolled is flesh fingers?
Everything will filter though a final layer of fast and performance "filter" models.
Social media algorithms will be replaced by personal recommender agents acting as content butlers.
We just need a good pane of glass to house this.