Bytes & Backpacks #114 🐛

When I read the latest news from the world of artificial intelligence, I am increasingly convinced that we are approaching the end of websites. People are no longer interested in the process of searching for information; they want the direct result that something like ChatGPT provides. Google has experienced a decline in the number of users using search on Apple platforms for the first time in history. Meanwhile, OpenAI is excited about potentially buying Chrome (in case Google is broken up), is piloting its own social network, and when I look around, I hardly see anyone searching for information anywhere other than in AI... This change in the way we work has been incredibly fast. The web will remain as an "internal database" of source data for AI. SEO will focus on ensuring your information is properly found and correctly interpreted by artificial intelligence. You will search, socialize, and shop through ChatGPT and similar tools.

What do you think about this? Are you looking forward to it? Or would you rather start disconnecting, buying vinyl records instead of using Spotify, and subscribing to paper newspapers?

If you don't feel like reading, don't forget that Bytes & Backpacks is also available in podcast form. Still from AI, but I think it's listenable ;-).

Business & Technology 👨‍💻

* Are you a bit confused about which OpenAI model to use for what?

* The most famous startup accelerator, Y Combinator, has released its traditional overview of what companies it's looking for. Unsurprisingly, they see the future in AI agents.

* Coddy is "Duolingo for programming", Manna is "Duolingo for studying the Bible".

* Even though my phone signal still drops 4 times every day on my way home from work, "the show must go on", so we're going to have a navigation system for moving on the Moon!

Travel 🧳

* Want crowds? Go to Thailand to check out the destinations from the last series of White Lotus.

* Don't want crowds? Head to Tuvalu. Only about 3,000 tourists arrive there annually, and as of last week, they have their first ATM!

* Luxury motorhomes are becoming a bit boring. How about a fire truck converted into a motorhome? (thanks, Miro)

* This might be useful when traveling. It's old, but still valid. Which countries don't get along?

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Nature ⛰️

* Good news - we already produce almost half of the world's electricity from renewables.

* Arctic wolves cuddle up to photographers.

* A bear came to slide down a children's slide in a garden.

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