We mock Musk, Altman and Zuck for using bleak sci-fi references to market products — but these 'useful dystopias' might just be the point

Tech downgrades, it's just business, becoming a billionaire, and building useful things for useless people

Thinking about voice-enabled assistants, learned services, and the immediate hurdles for these products to overcome.

Mark Esposito, Josh Entsminger and Terence Tse warn that society is practically defenseless against those who would use technology to automate manipulation.

ChatGPT and LLMs can do anything (or look like they can), so what can you do with them? How do you know? Do we move to chat bots as a magical general-purpose interface, or do we unbundle them back into single-purpose software? What are the products?