I drove down to NYC to see a fireside chat with Matt Mullenweg and John Borthwick of Betaworks. I know both these guys, did a project with Borthwick that became Bit.ly, had higher hopes for it, but it didn't happen . Had a chance to get my picture taken with Matt and it was good to get a short chat in there. And I've known Matt since he was a 17-year-old boy wonder of Silicon Valley. He and I mostly see eye to eye on what the web is. And now that they're starting we'll find out for sure what their idea of the web in 2025 is. 

From the intro it sounds like the focus will be on AI.

Ben Werdmuller is sitting next to me. 

The audio is terrible. We can make out what Matt is saying, but Borthwick is hard to figure out what he's saying.

Acoustics of this room not great, and there are a lot of people who are having a cocktail party because the room is so big. There might be some useful tech, like having it live streamed so people can listen on headphones. 

ChatGPT is simulated intelligence. It's designed to fooling you into thinking it's thinking but it's not. When you really try to solve problems with your intelligence that's when you learn it's not even close to thinking.

Matt's on a 41 day blogging streak. I don't even know how long its been since I didn't post anything on my blog. Honestly I'm not sure my nightly email app would handle no posts on my blog. That probably means I haven't missed a day since May 2017.

​AI changed the basic capabilities of computers. Some technologies will do fine in the new world, like SQL databases. But the stuff we do — that's going to change radically. Will anything be left? No one knows, imho. Best thing we can do is keep going on the path we were on, and look for ways to involve AI tech in a way that will bring the power of AI to writers.