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Chaudry: Prompting AI is entertainment that directly competes for consumer attention
“I think my first POV on AI right now is that I think we don't talk about
AI and prompting as entertainment enough.
And what I mean by that is not like its ability to produce entertainment, but the fact that it is entertaining to chat with an LLM.”
Chaudry: Thumbnail designers are YouTube's most powerful viewership gatekeepers
“Thumbnail designers, as a cottage industry of YouTube, are some of, like, the most powerful people on the platform. They literally are the gatekeepers between creators and, like, millions of views.”
Chaudry predicts viewership for middle-ground educational content will steadily decline
“Anything in the middle is really hard, right? Like educational stuff, very hard right now. I think viewership is going to go down in the middle.”
Chaudry: LLMs brainstorm idea variations faster and better than five humans
“Presently, an LLM can do that better than five people in a room, and faster than five people in a room, if you want to see every variation of an idea.”
Chaudry: Most events overvalue stage content and undervalue prompted networking
“So I would say most events probably undervalue free time and space and prompted networking or prompted conversation and overvalue what happens on stage.”
Chaudry predicts educational content will shift to real-time wearable glasses
“And I think the obvious thing you recognize is that that won't be our phone soon. Right? Like, maybe it'll be glasses, maybe it'll be contact lenses, maybe it'll be like contact lenses and an earpiece, but there will be like an omnipresent nature, and that's v…”
90% of Chaudry's event applicants cited creator loneliness as key issue
“I would say 90%
Of people just said that being a creator is lonely and I want to meet other people in, in the industry and like other like-minded individuals.”
Mustafa Suleyman generated a compelling podcast live using Microsoft Copilot
“Mustafa Suleiman from Microsoft the CEO of Microsoft AI on our show prompted a podcast that was really compelling using copilot.”