Neil Ackland

@chalaska 👋

Genuinely curious, how many Aussie designers, founders and builders are here on X? Wanting to connect with you all!

@edels0n Solid thoughts Ed 👍🏻

@andrewchen Building a solution right now where human taste meets AI scale. lokol.ai

the most important AI startups won't be the ones that replace humans... They'll be the ones that help humans figure out what to do next what will humans do next? I think we get a clue when it comes to the discussion around "taste" on one end of the spectrum and verifiability on the other AI is great at verifiable problems. Did the code compile, is the math right. Where it struggles: "was that email rude?" "does this tweet hit hard?" the gap between objectively verifiable and subjectively verifiable is where the most interesting companies will be built, because it's where humans can team up productively with AI

@polyaivoice PolyAI

PolyAI has raised $200M from Nvidia, Khosla Ventures, and multiple top VCs. We're one of the fastest-growing companies in the UK, and we handle 500M+ calls for: • Marriott • PG&E • Gordon Ramsay's restaurants • And 3,000 more real deployments Which means that if you've ever called them, chances are you've talked to our voice agents. Every restaurant we onboard books thousands in revenue within 30 days. But how? Because PolyAI works 24/7, answering every call in <2 seconds, and we also: • switch between 45+ languages • handle payments & cancellations • verify identities • and even upsell your services If you want to try creating an agent with PolyAI, we built Agent Studio Lite to make it easy. Just enter any URL, and in 5 minutes it will analyze your website and build a working agent. We're opening early access to a limited number of people. Comment "PolyAI" and we'll add you to the waitlist and give you 3 months for free!

@kevinroose I’d love to hear the Hark Fork take on AI & Taste. Does it have it already and if not, will it get there? Is taste the human moat?

@TheWalid lokol.ai

who’s building paid chatbots for creators?

@signulll This conversation reminds me of firstly when mobile sites appeared and lots of people said 'ads on those tiny screens will never work' and then again when social took off and the narrative was 'people will never allow ads to interrupt their social experience'. Funny in hindsight.

at some point you’re gonna see a slow drip pr push from the non ad ai companies trying to warm people up to ads in chat. the conditioning cycle has already begun in some ways. the interesting part is that ads have never actually worked in a chat interface. like, name a single chat product that figured it out. facebook’s been holding the whatsapp/messenger bag for a decade & still can’t monetize them well. this is because chat is deeply intimate. borderline sacred. once a product is living in your linguistic cortex, the ux tolerance goes to zero. any hint of bias or intrusion feels like a parasite. contrast that w/ google, maybe the most elegant business model ever constructed where ads felt native, even helpful, because they were aligned w/ the search intent. ai chat is the opposite because it’s personal. it’s porous. it’s a weirdly confessional interface. stuffing ads into that space is a high wire act. the ads layer for ai is gonna be one of the hardest synthesis problems in the whole stack. you have to nail relevance without feeling manipulative, integrate commerce without violating trust, & somehow keep the model from steering you toward whoever pays. will be fascinating to watch this all play out. i have posted a lot about ads for ai before.

@StanSportAU sound cutting in and out constantly on live stream - sort it out!

Disappointed @England lost again in a final. If there’s a silver lining, it’s that I never have to sit through the dreadful Diplomatico rum ad ever again. Excruciating @OptusSport

@OptusSport @KellySomers @Lionesses Great sentiment. You were awesome 👏

'I arrived here and they told me this wasn't a football country. You could have fooled me!' 😭 @KellySomers witnessed the @Lionesses win WEURO 2022 and its transformative effect on women's football. The same could happen here 🇦🇺 Until next time 👋❤️ #FIFAWWC #OptusSport

@OptusSport how long does it take to activate my subscription? I wanted to watch tonight’s games but it just says pending. Is there a man in a dark room somewhere pulling levers??

@soundboy Brilliant piece Ian. Hopefully the people with some ability to influence policy also read it and respond.

I wrote an essay for the FT - We must slow down the race to God-like AI: bit.ly/3mwP950

@markritson Everything but the old lady - still love ‘em though!

Ok, it’s official I’m old.

Season defining moment of pure pleasure for long suffering @Arsenal fans! It never gets old.

@Arsenal The Ode-shin-gaard

🤔 What shall we name this Odegaard skill, Gooners? Get your submissions in down below 👇

@tomroach Australian Open Tennis and AFL Grand Final used to launch major brand campaigns in Aus.

US advertising has the Super Bowl. UK advertising has Christmas. Do other markets have their moment when ads are a national ‘event’?

@adamferrier @Microsoft @bing Oh, that’s interesting! When was that?

@NeilAckland @Microsoft @bing Badabing was the origional naming suggestion for Bing - back in the day, before Bing we went to Redmond and suggested it.

Reckon @Microsoft @bing has missed a trick naming the Chat GPT bolt-on Bada…..‘Bada-Bing’

@simoncrerar @Microsoft @bing And better than ‘Bard’

@simoncrerar @Microsoft @bing Ha! That I am. But seriously, giving it some personality and a catchy, memorable brand name (you know, marketing) might not be a bad thing. Surely it’s a better name than ‘New Bing’ or Chat GPT ?