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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Messages Home Explore Notifications Messages Grok Premium Bookmarks Jobs Communities Verified Orgs Profile More Post Maanav Khaitan @MaanavKhaitan Post See new posts Conversation goodalexander @goodalexander Alright so - it's Saturday which means it's time to rant. I've endlessly talked about the 'base case' of society which I'd describe as follows: A] Technology and the distraction economy is already so delightful that it's impossible to resist B] We know for a fact that personalized ads outperform generic ads by 2-5x on both engagement and conversion rate C] Previously scalable personalization was impossible because just looking at someone's keyword history doesn't capture nuance D] LLMs with history *do* capture this nuance, which is why Memory is the number one focus of ChatGPT E] ChatGPT has 50-100x as much usage as the next largest AI application (depending on how you measure usage). But TLDR people talk to

goodalexander @goodalexander Alright so - it's Saturday which means it's time to rant. I've endlessly talked about the 'base case' of society which I'd describe as follows: A] Technology and the distraction economy is already so delightful that it's impossible to resist B] We know for a fact that personalized ads outperform generic ads by 2-5x on both engagement and conversion rate C] Previously scalable personalization was impossible because just looking at someone's keyword history doesn't capture nuance D] LLMs with history *do* capture this nuance, which is why Memory is the number one foc

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