It's always such fun to talk with @JimPethokoukis
. Here's our lively conversation about AI and the Future of Work.
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Erik Bryn discusses AI and Future of Work with Jim Pethokoukis
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Pim de Witte accidentally built the perfect world model data collection business
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on their @latentspacepod we covered how @pimdewitte accidentally made the PERFECT world model data collection business by collecting the world's largest dataset of trainable (video,action) pairs.
— swyx @aiDotEngineer WF (@swyx) 25 juin 2026
turning the attention economy into the attention industry.
congrats Pim!!
link… https://t.co/Al4NGdX71W pic.twitter.com/opgI2Kk95Kon their @latentspacepod we covered how @pimdewitte accidentally made the PERFECT world model data collection business by collecting the world's largest dataset of trainable (video,action) pairs. turning the attention economy into the attention industry. congrats Pim!! link
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Swati Sharma on AI, DPI for Rural Governance at Workshop
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Swati Sharma, Joint Secretary, Rural Livelihoods, @MoRD_GoI, shared her perspectives on "AI, DPI & Emerging Technologies – Building the Future of Rural Governance" during the Workshop on Leveraging AI for Rural Development (Viksit Gram for Viksit Bharat).
— IndiaAI (@OfficialINDIAai) 25 juin 2026
In her remarks, she… pic.twitter.com/2pl3uzRKB5Swati Sharma, Joint Secretary, Rural Livelihoods, @MoRD_GoI
, shared her perspectives on "AI, DPI & Emerging Technologies – Building the Future of Rural Governance" during the Workshop on Leveraging AI for Rural Development (Viksit Gram for Viksit Bharat). In her remarks, she -
Forty years of wrong energy forecasts due to Industrial Intelligence scale
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For forty years, every major energy forecast has been wrong.
— Nina Schick (@NinaDSchick) 25 juin 2026
We failed to grasp the scale of Industrial Intelligence: what it really takes to build, power, and keep a general intelligence “on” as a permanent utility that permeates the entire economy.
You see this now in the… pic.twitter.com/p2QxNXHgslFor forty years, every major energy forecast has been wrong. We failed to grasp the scale of Industrial Intelligence: what it really takes to build, power, and keep a general intelligence “on” as a permanent utility that permeates the entire economy. You see this now in the
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Workshop on Leveraging AI for Rural Development
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Workshop on Leveraging AI for Rural Development (Viksit Gram for Viksit Bharat), organised by the Department of Rural Development, @MoRD_GoI
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Gary Marcus’s 2023 AI prediction on economy unraveling still true
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An almost perfect prediction of the current AI predicament — and what may ultimately unravel our entire economy — from almost three years ago (August 2023), at Marcus on AI: Nearly every word remains true.
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AI cost approaching zero with space solar energy
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this is the real thing, but also shows how we’re accelerating toward a cost of running AI that is close to zero or the cost of energy, and if it’s solar energy, then very very very cheap. Sun always shine in space. there is a reason we wanna build stuff up there and beam down
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AI Gap: Humans Unrewarded, AI Unable to Produce Knowledge Yet
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The AI gap looms: when humans don't produce knowledge because they're not rewarded for it anymore, and AI doesn't either because it doesn't know how to yet.
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Paul Gambles: AI bubble is biggest stock-market bubble ever
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“The Al bubble is by far the biggest stock-market bubble that mankind has ever seen – both in scale and scope, in terms of the leverage that's in there and in terms of the sheer excessive exuberance that's driven valuations" – Paul Gambles via Bloomberg.
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Solopreneur unicorn token expenditure far exceeds 100-person company
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If we ever end up with a solopreneur unicorn the token expenditure will be orders of magnitude higher than if it were a 100 person company.