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Urban Loops and Algorithmic Traps: How AI Shapes Where We Go

TL;DR for operators AI systems should not be judged only by whether they make each user happier, faster, or more “creative.” That is the easy dashboard. The harder question is whether millions of individually useful interactions reshape the whole market, city, or creative ecosystem in ways that concentrate attention and opportunity. Two recent arXiv papers form a useful chain. One models next-venue recommendation in cities and shows a sharp trade-off: recommenders can increase individual venue diversity while concentrating collective visits on already popular locations.1 The other argues that generative AI should be understood as an alternative form of cognition built from collective human knowledge, and that the practical path forward is human-AI synergy, broad access, and governance rather than endless trench warfare over authorship.2 ...

April 11, 2025 · 14 min · Zelina
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From Scratch to Star: How Generative AI Lets You Build Your Own Lil Miquela

TL;DR for operators Generative AI makes it technically possible for a small team, or even a disciplined solo operator, to build a virtual influencer: a consistent face, voice, backstory, content calendar, visual style, and interaction pattern. That is the easy part. The harder part is making the persona commercially useful rather than merely photogenic. ...

March 31, 2025 · 14 min · Zelina
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From Gomoku AI to Boardroom Breakthroughs: How Generative AI Can Transform Corporate Strategy

TL;DR for operators A Gomoku-playing LLM is not going to walk into your Monday strategy meeting and outperform the CFO. The interesting part is more useful than that. Hui Wang’s LLM-Gomoku paper shows a language model being turned into a strategic game player by surrounding it with structure: board-state representation, explicit rules, strategy prompts, local position scoring, self-play, reinforcement learning, state-action-reward storage, and visualisation.1 That is the part worth stealing. Not the board game. Not the romance of “AI intuition.” The machinery. ...

March 28, 2025 · 15 min · Zelina