AI in 2023: The Application Layer Has Arrived

Use Cases for Algorithmic Recommendations, Image Models, & Language Models

This is a weekly newsletter exploring the collision of technology and humanity. To receive Digital Native in your inbox each week, subscribe here: Hey Everyone 👋 , What’s exciting about AI right now is that the platform layer is solidifying, meaning that it’s time for the application layer to emerge. In other words, the stuff that you and I will interact with every day. Over the past few months, I’ve written several Digital Native pieces about what’s happening in AI. Given that this is the topic in tech as we head into 2023, I wanted to combine those pieces into one cohesive deep-dive on…

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