It’s easy to think of AI as some sort of existential battle between human and machine. Maybe it will one day, like Skynet. But many people are also trying to figure out how to use AI not to replace human creativity and thinking, but as a tool to augment those things.
Sari Azout is one of these people. She is the founder of Sublime, a platform dedicated to curation, creativity and ideas. Sublime is all about taste, which makes it slightly surprising that there’s a huge amount of AI powering its operation. But for Azout, it all makes sense.
On this episode of The VergecastThe second in our two-part series on how developers use and integrate AI into their products, Azout explains how it brings AI to Sublime without changing what makes it human. She talks about the platform’s discovery options, the importance of good data, how humans and AI make connections, and much more. She also introduces us to Sublime’s latest tool, Podcast Magic, which is pretty much entirely made up of AI models.
Azout also explains how she uses AI in her own life, both as a productivity tool and as a creative partner. She has some reservations about how AI might develop and what that might mean as we rely more and more on it in our lives, but she is convinced there is a balance that can work.
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