Dan Taylor-Watt

AI predictions 2024 report card How did I do?

A review of my 2024 AI predictions, ahead of my first batch of 2025 predictions (dropping tomorrow) open.substack.com/pub/dantaylo...

Chatting to ChatGPT with live video One of my AI predictions for last year was that “advances in computer vision will unlock new consumer use cases”.

First of @dantaylorwatt.com’s Media & AI Sandwich posts I’ve flagged here. Dan’s posts will probably tell you all you ever need to know about what’s happening in AI, well before it becomes mainstream . dantaylorwatt.substack.com/p/chatting-t...

Screenshot of email explaining price of Guardian subscription is going up from £56.99 per year to £94.99 per year

66% increase in subscription price from @theguardian.com feels a bit punchy

Lessons from Netflix and Twitter’s live streaming fails Live streaming at scale is hard. What to do when it all goes Pete Tong?

I wrote this 18 months ago. Live streaming at scale still hard. open.substack.com/pub/dantaylo...

Screenshot of Bluesky dialog asking if I want to use in-app browser or default browser to open links

It’s so civilised on here compared to *the bad place*. I’m even asked where I want my links opening 😊

Update on my AI predictions for 2024 It’s nine months since I posted my AI predictions for the year and six months since I reviewed progress and added four more predictions. Time for a check-in.

Robots doing your ironing, computers filling out web forms for you, AI-generated game worlds, the AI search engine that grew 40% last month.

It can only be an update on my 15 AI predictions for 2024.

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Variation of Assassination Chain meme. Gemini Ultra points gun at GPT-4. Claude 3 points gun at Gemini Ultra. On the balcony GPT-5…

Missed opportunity not to have called Le Chat powered by Mistral Large ‘Le Big Chat’