Stewart Alsop: AI's real value is who can pull aesthetics out of latent space, not hard math
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-09-24
Investor Stewart Alsop III argues the AI discourse is off-target: the real question isn't the hard math problems models solve, but how many people can pull content out of latent space and aesthetically enjoy it (not many).
He then asks who captures that value — OpenAI or Anthropic, or some obsessive indie creator first (followed shortly by the labs, unless a local model was used).
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