It’s easy to think of AI as a kind of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will be like Skynet someday. But a lot of people are trying to figure out how to use AI not as a replacement for human creativity and thinking but as a tool to enhance those things.
Sari Azout is one of those people. She is the founder of sublimeA platform dedicated to curation, creativity and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it a little surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI power at play in the way it works. But to Azout, it all makes sense.
But This episode of The VergecastThe second in our two-part series on how developers are using and building AI into their products, Azout explains how she’s bringing AI into Sublime without changing the things that make it human. She talks about the platform’s search options, the importance of good data, how humans and AI relate together, and much more. She also tells us about Sublime’s latest tools, podcast magicWhich is completely an AI model to a large extent.
Azout also explains how she is using AI in her life as both a productivity tool and creative partner. She has some reservations about how AI might develop, and what it might mean as we depend on it for most of our lives, but she is confident there is a balance that can work.
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