ChelseaI don’t think the Paypal Mafia building for themselves can independently launch us into the future we want. I think they can rapidly saturate any market opened by a new tech platform. As a result, first-generation and even second-generation product ideas are done to death almost as soon as the platform becomes available. The surest, and maybe the only, pathways to innovation in a saturated market require a focus on the marginal cases. Who can best identify and solve for these cases? Often, it’s the people for whom the status quo works the least well—whose existence doesn’t even factor into status quo decision-making.
To the extent that the availability of generative models constitutes a new platform, that framework applies the same way it applied for the mobile platform and the consumer web. The perspectives, lived experiences, and contributions that would transition AI products from “expensive skeuomorph” to “meaningful innovation” won’t, and can’t, come from tech’s noveau riche. For that transition to materialize, the execution support available from the Paypal Mafia will have to go looking for who it has left behind.
I’m not holding my breath.
Source: How do we build the future with AI? by Chelsea Troy
Chelsea Troy explains that visionary ideas are often derived directly from centering people at the margins, not generated based on data and statistics. The opportunity with AI lies in the margins, the problem is that those in control, “tech’s noveau riche”, are unlikely to embrace this.
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