You Make Friends by Asking Questions
So one of the things that I’ve really loved in working on Rover these past few months is how it inverts that dynamic, and what it means for social interactions.
I build new things. I started as the second employee of Time magazine’s new Website and grew it from a single, text-only webpage to a multimedia platform with millions of users.
So one of the things that I’ve really loved in working on Rover these past few months is how it inverts that dynamic, and what it means for social interactions.
What does any tangible handmade good mean when it can be cheaply replicated by machines? Duchamp’s response was in part to say that an object’s value comes from the human connection between giver and receiver.
We’re at that stage with AI now. While everyone is complaining about the quality of the product (It’s slop! It’s soulless! It’s completely inaccurate!), I think we miss the deeper issue, which is this: Almost everyone is using AI to do the same thing they did before, just faster/cheaper/easier.
First off, and to avoid any confusion, we are not the pet sitter marketplace. (Yes, I know. I'm disappointed too.) Instead, Rover is an audio-first, AI-driven social content platform. What does that mean?