I actually didn't smell AI at all while reading this article, because the idea density seemed high, rather than when AI just expands a few ideas into repetitive mumbo jumbo. The last portion was a bit wordy and metaphysical, but he landed the plane at the end.
This feels like the example of (world-famous violinist) Joshua Bell playing violin in the DC subway and getting just a few bucks. It's totally different than paying money to see him in a concert hall, context matters so much...
We started this because we were building https://www.parsnip.ai/, an app to help people learn how to cook. But then that became a bit of a yak shave because we realized we first had to figure out how to teach people different skills at different times all starting from different places, and also needed to help fund the creation of the app.
We ended up generalizing the platform to education in other domains (K-12, higher ed, workforce) as B2B2B "AI learning infrastructure" but still have our cooking app which is also starting to take advantage of this R&D finally coming to fruition!
It seems like Black Mirror's "Joan is Awful" is here, but instead of a quantum computer generating personalized content, we just have an endless parade of meaningless slop.
Startup: https://parsnip.ai