Get some inspiration from my writing ideas list
- Understanding AI Assisted Media Consumption - reflexivity
- What concrete new thing could you do if energy from the grid was 100x cheaper?
- quantifying the unquantifiable, measuring subjective/qualitative characteristics at scale through ML
- Spam filtering was a kind of great unsolved problem in 90s/early 00s with endless debates on topic in places like Slashdot, then we figured out Bayesian classifiers worked pretty well. Now ranking algos vs endless-algo-generated-variations is kind of an unsolved problem.
- creativity is commodified with foundation models, how do you identify true originality
- The future of ranking and social media landscape, from spam to social media (see roam)
- interested in ranking problems that deal with ecosystem optimization, resource allocation, multi objective (review solicitation, amazon gateway, FB newsfeed, ad tech, even PM planning0 - where else could ranking systems help that they aren’t in place? algos in resource allocation
- measuring the world
- Ideation systems
- aligning AI with human values
- Satisfaction in life vs striving for more
- Societal Trust crisis - institutions and eachother
- Legitimacy crisis and new governance forms
- Making the internet a better place
- Automation and societal impacts
- Post-capitalism / post-work society and how it might be constructed (and is it a good thing?)
- Free will vs determinism
- fixing healthcare
- Augmented thought, both brain exploration and how work changes when you are talking to the machine (pair programming, and pair art direction)
- future of work and AI: co-pilot vs auto-pilot
- Visualizing human knowledge
- How might our relationship with computers change in a world where we aren’t constrained by screens?