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Muse can now place calls to U.S. businesses — if you pay
Muse's AI can now place outbound calls to US businesses — but it's not free.
Anne Frank exhibit at Griffin Museum of Science and Industry underlines the widespread appeal of denialism
The routine objects and ordinary facts of Anne Frank's life are part of what makes her story so compelling. Objects and facts that are rejected by those who refuse to understand the lesson she offers.
Science Museum of Minnesota to make heavy cuts
Some 32 positions will be cut, restructured or remain unfilled, and touring exhibits will sunset.
75 million-year-old dinosaur fossil in North Carolina science museum
The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences is housing a newly discovered 75 million-year-old dinosaur fossil that was found in Utah.
Lower attendance and budget gap prompt more cuts at the Science Museum
More than a year after cutting positions, the Science Museum of Minnesota is trimming jobs again to close a $4.64 million gap amid lower attendance.
Advertising IP Is the New Entertainment IP
Picture it. A major pop culture or comic convention has taken over a city's hotel conference rooms, hallways and lobbies. The space buzzes with energy as badge-wearing attendees move from panels to vendor booths, stopping to shop, snap photos or simply to people watch. Everywhere you look, fans are dressed as their favorite characters, brought
A 4.5 billion year old meteorite crashed into her home. She gave it to the Houston Museum of Natural Science
The sonic boom and streak of light from the meteorite earlier this year made many Houstonians look to the sky. Now, that meteorite is on display for free at the museum for Houstonians to see a part of Space City history.
A 4.5 billion year old meteorite crashed into her home. She gave it to the Houston Museum of Natural Science
The sonic boom and streak of light from the meteorite earlier this year made many Houstonians look to the sky. Now, that meteorite is on display for free at the museum for Houstonians to see a part of Space City history.
With A Yield Of 6.2%, Is It Time To Buy This Entertainment REIT?
The portfolio for EPR Properties stock ranges from casino resorts to amusement parks, and on to cinemas, its largest segment.
Scientists discover one of world’s oldest insects in museum
Scientists have identified one of the oldest known insects in the world, a 324-million-year-old fossil that sat in storage at the San Diego Natural History Museum for decades after being classified as...
Milwaukee Bobblehead Museum adds Governor-elect David Crowley to political collection
A new line of bobbleheads from Milwaukee’s National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum will feature Governor-elect David Crowley along with other recent winners in the midterm elections. The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum was founded in 2014 in Milwaukee. As its name suggests, it cre
San Antonio science org boots up new Techtopia museum
If the boop-eeeEEEeeee-kshhhhhhh of dial-up internet brings a tear to your eye, Alamo City has something to download. The San Antonio Museum of Science and Technology (SAMSAT) has opened Techtopia Museum, a new space showcasing late founder David Monroe’s trove of historical gadgets.
Miraculous Corp and ActivNation partner to launch Miraculous: Land of Heroes family entertainment centers across the U.S. featuring immersive entertainment, interactive attractions, and themed experiences
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Miraculous Corp—the joint venture between Mediawan and ZAG—and ActivNation today announced a partnership to develop Miraculous: Land of Heroes, a new generation of location-base…
Kings Dominion debuts Hops & Harvest Festival with seasonal flavors, craft beverages and live entertainment
DOSWELL, Va. — Kings Dominion will debut Hops & Harvest Festival, a brand-new fall celebration that transforms International Street into a festive gathering place filled with seasonal flavors, …
Central Ohio marks Veterans Day with ceremonies, service events and business discounts
Veterans Day is being marked across central Ohio with ceremonies, community service events and discounts aimed at honoring those who served.At the National Veterans Memorial and Museum, a special service is looking back
Business Profile: Sunflower Art Studio
Lika Gitis, the owner of Sunflower Art Studio in Gunbarrel, approaches art and life with unconcealed zeal. Gitis populates her studio with imaginative mascots including a 3D-printed Totoro (from Hayao Miyazaki's 1988 film) and a plush Van Gogh from the Denver Art Museum's exhibition of the painter. "They move around," she explained. But not, thankf...
Science Museum of Minnesota gets $2.5M to expand STEM resources for rural educators through network of centers
C Spire holds annual Bytes and Bites event for business leaders
Business leaders with questions about AI, cybersecurity, and other technologies could connect directly with C Spire executives at the company’s annual Bytes and Bites event at the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame and Museum.
Scientists anchor first scientific animal name to a modern-day spider
Scientists led by the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History have restored the physical reference of one of the most historically significant names in biology. In a paper published in Taxonomy, ...
Motown Museum’s Hitsville U.S.A. tours to resume next month ahead of expansion’s 2027 debut
Motown Museum will reopen the one-time home of Motown Records to visitors as work continues on $75 million campus expansion.
Meta's AI agent Muse lands on Apple Watch and Android Wear OS
Users can now interact with Meta’s AI assistant through voice calls, text messages, or dictation on their Apple Watch.
Join for the 2026 Hope Gala by Mercy Health Foundation
Mercy Health Foundation invites you to the 2026 Hope Gala on Nov. 21 at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans.
Egyptian cats meant for the gods led harsh lives, extensive museum collection reveals
More than 2,000 years ago, Egyptians offered cats to the gods. Now, a new study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science suggests that even cats destined for the gods did not necessarily live ...
Science Museum Of Minnesota Gets $2.5M To Build STEM Resource Centers Across Greater Minnesota
Big news for rural classrooms: the Science Museum of Minnesota lands 2.5 million in federal funding to build five new Regional STEM Educator Resource Centers across greater Minnesota.
\'Hershey\' film to have red-carpet premiere at Hershey Theatre; nearby museum has exhibit on movie
Milton S. Hershey learned the candy business when he was an apprentice in Lancaster, and later had his first success as a candymaker with his Lancaster Caramel Co.
California voters reject measure to tax the wealth of billionaires
The measure would have imposed a one-time 5% tax on the wealth of Californians whose net worth exceeds $1 billion.
Meta's Muse AI Agent Comes to Apple Watch
Meta today updated the Muse app for iOS to add Apple Watch support, which means Muse users can access the proactive AI agent from the watch. The app adds the Muse character to the watch with an option to text it, dictate text to it, or call it. There's also a Muse complication for quick access. Muse is Meta's personal AI agent that can complete tasks for users. It is available as a standalone app and is also built into Instagram, Facebook, and other Meta apps.
Southeastern Tile Connection Sponsors Asheville Museum of Science's Under the Stars
Southeastern Tile Connection sponsors AMOS's 10th-anniversary gala, Under the Stars, on Nov. 6 to support hands-on STEM education across Western North Carolina.
A Quantum Computer Is Now On Display At Busan’s National Science Museum
A quantum computer is now on display at Busan’s National Science Museum, part of the new “Quantum Magic School” program.
Managers with the best win percentages in La Liga history
Winning consistently in La Liga is no easy feat, particularly in a division dominated by two of world football's biggest clubs. Yet a select group of managers have maintained remarkable records in Spa...
Boston's Museum Of Science Puts Creators At The Center Of Its Global Ambitions
The Museum of Science used its first SciCom Summit on November 2 to put other people’s channels at the center of its strategy. The invite-only gathering in Boston brought science creators and scientists into the museum’s new Bloomberg Public Science Common, on the bet that a museum reaches the world by convening the people who already reach it.
WATCH | Mid-America Science Museum’s annual fundraiser Taste of the Holidays offers food and drink, silent auction
The 25th annual Taste of the Holidays is set for 6 to 9 p.m. on Nov. 19 at Mid-America Science Museum and is viewed by many residents as the kickoff to the holiday season in Hot Springs.
Luxury brands try to entice younger consumers with new experience
Attending a legacy luxury brand’s workshop is “almost like being at a museum-level exhibit” because of the history on display, said a marketing professor.
Premier League Team of the Week: Our Best XI
The Premier League served up another weekend of drama, surprise results and standout individual performances. From statement victories to impressive displays from players across the division, there wa...
Entertainment or exploitation? The uncomfortable truth about reality TV
These are real people, thrust into unnatural – sometimes dangerous – situations, for our amusement
Marquette graduate students bring science to life for middle school students through MUSE program
For middle school students, science can sometimes feel like a collection of facts in a textbook. Through the Marquette University Science Exchange Program (MUSE), two Marquette University doctoral students are helping students see science as something they can explore, question and experience for themselves. Led by Zebadiah (Zeb) Boos and Wanda Sihanath, doctoral students in…
Natural History Museum of Utah hosts first of its kind ‘ScienceFest’
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (ABC4) — Visitors at the Natural History Museum of Utah had the opportunity to meet scientists and learn about research as a part of “ScienceFest” this weekend. The event offered ...
K. Michelle Earns Nashville Museum Honor for Country Debut
After years of defending her place in country music, K. Michelle reaches a new milestone in her push for Black representation in the genre.
Denis Villeneuve and Vija Celmins honored at LACMA’s Art + Film gala
The 15th annual Art+Film Gala at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art honored artist Vija Celmins and filmmaker Denis Villeneuve, with musical guest Rosé.
Lamborghinis race into Newport for mens mental health
Numerous colorful Lamborghinis raced towards the Newport Car Museum in Portsmouth on Sunday
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science celebrates 40 years
The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science marked its 40th anniversary with free theater and planetarium shows, hands-on activities and giveaways
‘Rocky’: 7 Iconic Philadelphia Locations From the Film Franchise
From the museum steps to Rocky's apartment.
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science celebrates 40th anniversary with community
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science celebrated a big milestone with the community Saturday. The museum’s 40th anniversary happened back in January while und...
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science celebrates 40th anniversary with community
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science celebrated a big milestone with the community Saturday. The museum’s 40th anniversary happened back in January …
Scientists identify a completely new type of rock in a Martian meteorite and find garnet on Mars for the first time, but its planetary origin remains unconfirmed
An international team of scientists has identified a completely new type of rock on Mars and, for the first time, found the mineral garnet in a Martian sample. The discovery came from a fragment of the Martian meteorite NWA 8171, held in the Royal Ontario Museum’s collections, and was led by Tanya Kizovski of Brock University.
Join Voices for Hope on Nov. 13: Creating a Healthier Houston Together
Avenue 360's Voices for Hope gala comes to Hotel ZaZa Museum District Nov. 13 with a Broadway-inspired night supporting HIV care, hospice and more.
Meteorite that crashed through Spring-area home goes on display at Houston Museum of Natural Science
The space rock is part of the Houston Museum of Natural Science's "Fall to Earth" exhibit, which follows the meteorite's incredible journey through space.
California’s Great America Closing for Good in 2027
The amusement park is a Bay Area entertainment landmark for the young and young at heart. But it has been on borrowed time for years.
Don’t believe your eyes. Sacramento’s newest museum is full of mind-bending illusions
Gravity-defying rooms, dizzying tunnels and optical tricks await at the new Museum of Illusions in Sacramento’s DOCO. Take a look inside.
Pollsters, data centers and fraud risk: CT politics news
Plus: A Connecticut museum wins Award of Merit and CVS breakup raises questions for Hartford
MMAM to host Fall Seasonal Saturday Nov. 14
The Minnesota Marine Art Museum (MMAM) invites visitors and the Winona community to Fall Seasonal Saturday, River Town Remix on Saturday, November 14, 2026, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Meta introduces Spaces, a new way to collaborate with your Muse agent
Meta's Muse agents continue to get new features and integrations. Spaces promises to be a new way to interact with the AI helpers.
Meta’s Muse AI can create custom ‘spaces’ for the version of the app you need right now
An app within an app.
Eastern Bank Provides Tax-Exempt Financing for New Public Science Venue at Museum of Science
BOSTON– Eastern Bank is providing tax-exempt bond financing as the sole lender for the William and Charlotte Bloomberg Public Science Common, a new 10,000-square-foot civic space at Boston’s Museum of […]
Big discoveries, little scientists: ScienceFest returns to Salt Lake City
Natural History Museum of Utah hosts two-day event featuring science demonstrations, workshops and activities for all ages
Annual gingerbread house contest to have folk art feel
Gingerbread architects of all ages have a new muse this holiday season: a Hillsborough couple’s collection of more than 1,400 miniature American buildings.
Some N.C. hemp businesses are starting to shut down
Plus: Data centers to hit the grid next year, Duke says; Data gives details on Tuesday's local voting; CMS releases acting superintendent's salary; Nature Museum plan
Ray Romano inducted into Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame
The Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame inducted Ray Romano as its first nonmusical honoree in the museum's 22-year history Thursday.
Pens Points: B’s throttle Penguins for fourth straight loss
Here are your Pens Points for this Friday morning… The Pittsburgh Penguins suffered their fourth consecutive loss on Thursday, falling 6-2 to the Boston Bruins at PPG Paints Arena. [Recap] Penguins head coach Dan Muse has defended Declan Carlile amid criticism of his recent play. While acknowledging Carlile has struggled in key situations and has […]
Airbnb CEO says AI agents like Muse, Instinct have done few bookings
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says AI agents like Muse and Instinct have resulted in little traffic and very few bookings on the site.
Ray Romano, who played a Newsday sportswriter on 'Everybody Loves Raymond," inducted in Long Island Music and Entertainment Hall of Fame
The "Everybody Loves Raymond" star is the museum's first nonmusical honoree in its 22-year history.
Amazeum celebrates opening of $25 million expansion
The Scott Family Amazeum in Bentonville marked the completion of a $25 million expansion Thursday (Nov. 5). The 11,850-square-foot project is the first major expansion since the 50,000-square-foot museum for...
New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science Celebrates 40 years of discovery
By Sara Atencio-Gonzales, The Paper. – From prehistoric fossils to the mysteries of outer space, the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science has spent four decades bringing the state’s scientific history to life. Now, as the museum celebrates its 40th anniversary, staff members are reflecting on its evolution while preparing several special events…
New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science Celebrates 40 years of discovery
By Sara Atencio-Gonzales, The Paper. – From prehistoric fossils to the mysteries of outer space, the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science has spent four decades bringing the state’s scientific history to life. Now, as the museum celebrates its 40th anniversary, staff members are reflecting on its evolution while preparing several special events […]
Meta says US users can now video chat with their Muse AI avatar
Meta's AI agent can now take calls as a customizable animated avatar, ahead of the launch of a Tamagotchi-like wearable designed to bring Muse to life.
New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science marks 40 years
The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science will mark its 40th year Saturday with free shows and giveaways for the first 1,000 kids.
Griffin Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Illinois - e-architect
Designed by RAMSA, the project builds on key elements of the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry's master plan to create a fully accessible
49th annual Model Railroad Show will return to Science Museum of Virginia
All aboard! The 49th annual Model Railroad Show will return to the Science Museum of Virginia in Richmond in late November.
You can edit your videos with AI on Instagram’s new desktop Edits app
Would you let Muse edit your Reels?
TwinkleTwinkleStar announces strategic collaboration with U.K.-based Ventola Projects to transform party room entertainment
TwinkleTwinkleStar announces a strategic collaboration with Ventola Projects Ltd., a United Kingdom-based specialist in LED lighting, immersive technology, audiovisual solutions, and entertainment …
One museum visit a month could improve health, new report finds
Art Fund calls for greater investment in museums as research suggests regular visits could reduce depression, dementia risk and stress
Houston Museum of Natural Science at Sugar Land could see $4M in renovations
Museum Executive Director Kavita Self asked the city of Sugar Land to fund part of a proposed $4 million renovation project to upgrade exhibits and accessibility.
"Cars That Moved America" automotive exhibition coming to Griffin Museum of Science and Industry
The technological evolution of the automobile has been the subject of some kind of exhibition at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry going back more or less forever, but next year, a new approach to the subject with a new collection is coming.
Eastern requests more state funding for Integrated Science Building after receiving bids
Construction of EIU’s Integrated Science Building is awaiting the state’s decision to allocate more funds after projected expenses exceeded the current budget. The bids are for a new three-story academic science building for the biology and chemistry departments to the south of the Tarble Museum of Art, along with a new greenhouse. The university has currently received bids from four different...
Museum of Science Opens New Pathways into Science for Audiences with NOVA, Cody Rigsby, and a Dancer-and-Robot Duet
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 4, 2026--
Bradbury Science Museum Presents ‘Night With A Nerd: Neuromorphic Artificial Intelligence Wednesday Nov. 4.
BRADBURY SCIENCE MUSEUM NEWS RELEASE The Bradbury Science Museum will present ‘Night with a Nerd: Neuromorphic Artificial Intelligence’ 6-8 p.m. Wednesday Nov. 4. The community is encouraged t…
Bean Life Science Museum hosted its annual free Halloween Family Night for students and families
The Bean Life Science Museum hosted its annual Halloween Family Night on Oct. 26, offering families a free evening of hands-on activities, crafts, and opportunities to explore the natural world.
Scott Parker 'very confident' of promotion after West Ham appointment
Scott Parker has said he is delighted to return to West Ham after being appointed as the club's new manager.Parker replaces Nuno Espirito Santo as manager at the London Stadium, followingthe latter's ...
Sydney's new $641m Powerhouse arts and science museum to open amid crisis
Due to open on 7 November, the space is mired in controversy as senior executives stand aside during an ongoing misconduct and procurement investigation
National Navy SEAL Museum honors courage and commitment
Just north of Palm Beach County, along Florida’s scenic Treasure Coast, the National Navy SEAL Museum brings to life the remarkable stories of courage, sacrifice and service that have shaped
A jack of all tales: Orville Hicks delights museum annual meeting with stories of Appalachia
JEFFERSON — The Orion Schoolhouse became storyteller Orville Hicks’ front porch on Oct. 20 as he regaled the Museum of Ashe County History’s board members with old mountain tales and
AFGHS co-signatory countries ask health care users to help fill the financing gap
Hundreds of thousands of Ugandans living with HIV on antiretrovirals could be targeted for user fees or community health insurance schemes requiring modest premium payments, according to the April 2026 version of the country’s America First Global Health Strategy implementation narrative.1 As part of the “sustainable financing for the private not for profit sector” strategy, 491 facilities will be targeted for a phased introduction of user fees and scale up of community health insurance programs.2 In the Ugandan context, PNFP facilities include faith-based hospitals and other health facilities, US missionary organizations and centers of excellence—services that are often co-located at government facilities but run with additional financial and technical resources. 402,000 people—or about 28 percent of the total Ugandan adult PLHIV population on treatment—get ART from the private not for profit sector. The selected facilities provide the majority of ART and prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) services. The plan doesn’t give the total number of clients served by the 491 facilities, so it is not possible to give a precise number. But the majority of 402,000 is a figure in the hundreds of thousands—hence the estimate I’m using.3 The April draft of the Ugandan implementation plan narrative is the only one I’ve been able to review. But the government of Uganda is not alone in turning to health care users to help fill the financing gaps caused by the abrupt withdrawal of US funds. In July 2025, the Government of Liberia introduced user fees for previously free services including “registration, accommodation, patient feeding, hospitalization, and a wide range of surgical and diagnostic procedures.”4 Earlier that year, Liberia rolled out a revolving drug fund designed to stabilize drug supplies by “allowing patients to pay a small fee for standardized, quality medications,” according to a Ministry of Health press release.5 (Both of these approaches had been proposed in the National Health Policy 2022-2031; media coverage explicitly connects the launch with the US foreign aid cuts.) The health financing strategies proposed by Uganda and established in Liberia are qualitatively different from user fees officially adopted by specific health facilities to cover funding shortfalls caused by the new US approach.6 The latter is a stopgap, adhoc change. The former is a national governmental adoption of policies that pass costs on to health care users, despite evidence that such approaches can exacerbate inequities and leave deficits unfilled. Two countries does not make a pattern, but they do point to urgent questions: Have other countries, including Liberia, included user fees or community health insurance schemes in their implementation plans? If so, do any of these narratives have what Uganda’s lacks: a fall-back plan in place in case these strategies for sustainable health systems fail to deliver—as they have before? I wonder if you think about it Subscribe Predictable pitfalls Both community-based health insurance and user fees are as old as the hills. And after decades of people climbing up these hills, duking it out, climbing back down—neither strategy has shown the results the Ugandan implementation plan is counting on. This is, in fact, a hill some folks are willing to die on. (You knew I’d get there, right?) In November 2025, an African-led team of health system experts published a paper directed at low- and middle income country governments trying to figure out how to create self-sustaining health systems. The money wasn’t coming back. It had been more than nine months since the season of freezing, waivering and wood-chippering; two months since AFGHS tumbled into the world touting co-financing requirements and reductions in future US government health aid. Governments were looking for strategies for sustainable, self-financed health systems, the authors wrote. For countries considering user fees and community health insurance to fill the financing gaps, they had a simple message: Don’t. On user fees, the paper states: “Reliance on user fees is ultimately a regressive and inequitable approach. It places a disproportionate burden on the poor and undermines health system goals of equity and financial protection. […] There is overwhelming evidence that user fees mobilise very limited resources for the public health sector, making it an inefficient mechanism for revenue mobilisation.” On community health insurance: “Attempting to shift the burden of funding previously donor-funded services, such as HIV care and management, and TB treatment, onto contributory schemes would exacerbate their fragility and fail to protect the population.”7 The WHO says that community-based health insurance “cannot be expected to provide a major source of funding or coverage,” and noted that most schemes offer only moderate benefit to individuals paying into them, and exclude the poorest segment of the population.8 And yet, the US-Ugandan implementation plan says that community health insurance is “the central pillar of this [PNFP] sustainability strategy” and that this approach that will generate “pre-paid pooled funding at facility and community level [that] improves financial risk protection for households, reduces catastrophic out-of-pocket expenditure, and generates structured, transparent revenue streams that can progressively absorb recurrent costs including health worker salaries.” Unfortunately, Uganda’s own history suggests the pillar might not be able to bear this weight. Ugandans Have Been to this Rodeo Before—and Some Want Their Money Back Uganda introduced its first community health insurance scheme in 1996 with support from international donors.9 Thirty years later, somewhere between 0.2 and 0.3 percent of the population is covered by CHI; just over 1 percent has any kind of health insurance.10 User fees were universally introduced in 1993 as a condition of a World Bank loan.11 They were abandoned in 2001, and in 2004—the year I moved to Uganda to watch the free HIV program get underway—a definitive study found that the fees did not improve health systems and outcomes.12 In 2004, most clinics and hospitals had ‘free’ and ‘fee for service’ options for getting care.13 The fee for service, or “cash and carry” programs had often been established in the years prior to PEPFAR and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. People who could afford to paid for the drugs, often at facilities in the private-not-for-profit (PNFP) sector. When free drugs arrived, some people who’d been paying kept on doing so, perhaps because of shorter wait times, greater confidentiality, convenience or other factors. But in the year that I spent visiting the same clinics around the country week after week—including a “center of excellence” that maintained separate days for cash and carry clients and those accessing free ARVs—lots of people who had been paying tried to switch to the free option. They’d paid because they had no other choice. They’d sold pieces of family land, begged family members for loans, bought pills by the week, and sometimes by the day. Or they were just cash-strapped, like most of us, and wanted the funds for other things. 14 Twenty-two years later, this hasn’t changed. Ugandans pay out of pocket for 30-40 percent of their health care costs, leading one paper to declare that “falling ill is more than a health crisis. It is a financial emergency.”15 One recent study found that up to 48.5 percent of households dealing with tuberculosis sold something, took out a loan or dug into savings to defray the costs of TB care—which is supposed to be universally free.16 The Ugandan implementation plan does anticipate challenges. It proposes a phased approach, with 187 facilities introducing user contribution systems in Year 1, 152 in Year 2, and 153 in Year 3. Willingness to pay and feasibility studies will precede roll out; fees will be tiered by region, and a waiver system is proposed to ensure that no one has to pay who is unable to. Moreover, the plan provides for quarterly reviews of epidemiological data to “ensure that user contributions do not compromise epidemic control gains, ART continuity for the client cohort, TB case management, or PMTCT services.” Alt text: A screenshot of a table included in the implementation plan narrative that is the subject of this stack. It’s got a fetching pink bar at the top. It uses the abbreviation “CHI” which is Community Health Insurance, and FBO which is Faith Based Organizations, and it details the number of facilities that will implement user fees with waivers and community health insurance schemes over the five years of the agreement. As I said in the footnote, this is a super interesting document with a lot of other rich material. Tell me what you see—and what you would have focused on. And if you’ve seen something like this, or anything else that strikes you, in another implementation plan, tell me that too. You can use the Substack message platform or try me on Signal at @endaplague_again.25 (because @mercoonfan was, weirdly, taken). But the plan doesn’t fully explain what will happen if this approach doesn’t work out. Yes, progress will be monitored, and corrective action triggered. However, there is no specified funding replacement if premium and fee revenue prove inadequate. Instead, the authors write, “Currently, COEs serve a total client cohort of over 180,000 across 28 facilities. In the initial years, the U.S. Government (USG) will provide financial support for clients; over time, user fees generated by COEs will become the primary source of funding for sustaining their services.” Failure does not really seem to be an option. Health insurance schemes are more acceptable to the Ugandan population than user fees. Members of Parliament and civil society traveled to Ethiopia to see how that country’s scheme worked. In a follow up report, a veteran civil society group recommended allowing the “health insurance ecosystem to grow organically and [to] keep reviewing the law and regulations as this growth takes root.”17 One study found that more than three-quarters of Ugandans were willing to join a health insurance program.18 However, coverage of community-based health insurance is minimal, as is coverage of any kind of insurance—including private plans.19 A national health insurance scheme bill has been stalled for several years and presently sits with President Yoweri Museveni.20 Community-based health insurance scheme that do exist are expanding in number, but losing enrollees. Between 2022 and 2026, the number of community-based health financing schemes across the country increased by 42 percent, while the number of people enrolled decreased by nearly 11 percent.21 None of this means that community-based health insurance should not happen in Uganda—or that people do not want insurance. It doesn’t even mean that user fees and waivers won’t ever work. But there is highly relevant evidence from Uganda and the surrounding region that it is quite optimistic to describe community health insurance and user fees as central supports for sustainable financing in any sector of the health system. And now for the best-case scenario In the best-case scenario22, the Ugandan approach does exactly what it sets out to do, and so does the Liberian fee structure and revolving pharmacy fund—though I’ve not confirmed that these are in the MoU. In one best-case scenario, Uganda is an outlier, and user fees and community health insurance are not recurrent pillars of self-sustaining financing in other countries’ implementation plans. In another best-case scenario, all countries that include these strategies enjoy success beyond anyone’s evidence-informed wildest dreams: reliable funding generated by health care users fees, great health care outcomes for everyone, no exacerbation of inequities, no crippling household debt. No sold land, repurposed school tuition or high-interest loans. In the best-case scenario, not one of the hundreds of thousands of Ugandans living with HIV receiving antiretrovirals from 491 PNFP facilities misses a refill or leaves care because of user fees or community health insurance premiums. This is the best-case scenario for these people for their own health, and for their families. It is also the best-case scenario if Uganda wants to stay on the path to eliminating HIV as a public health threat. According to the country’s most recent data, 96.5 percent of people living with HIV on antiretrovirals are virologically suppressed. Epidemic control depends ensuring that 95% of people living with HIV know their status, 95 percent of those individuals are on ART, and 95% of those individuals are virologically suppressed. Uganda is still struggling with the first “95"—a frankly abysmal 85.3 percent. If HIV epidemic control and the attendant prevention of new infections, avoidable suffering and premature death matter, the country cannot afford to lose any clients who are currently in care.23 As I write this a couple hours before the polls close for the US elections in the city I live in, I say with soul-deep sincerity: I am rooting for the best-case scenario. I think it’s safe to say that we all are.24 I think it’s also safe to say that if the US and co-signatory governments have inked plans that lead to successful expansion of community health insurance and strategic use of user fees, we all would like to know, now, so that we don’t miss the opportunity to celebrate when success happens. The implementation plan narratives have to enter the public domain. They are the fullest expression of a strategy co-created by two governments. There are assumptions and details that people living in the US and co-signatory countries need to understand that are not available in the MoUs or, to date, in the Congressional Notifications. Some of these details can help other countries that are, as I write this, still working on implementation plans. Others, like a solid count of how many other countries have plans for expanding user fees or health insurance, are important for regional and global health architecture reform initiatives. No matter how this election night turns out, there will be a slew of new Congressional member orientations, briefings and talking points papers in the next few months. Release of implementation narratives should be a bullet point in every context that AFGHS is discussed. These documents can be redacted so that procurement sensitive information isn’t disclosed. There is much more historical precedent for sharing such documents than there is for relying on user fees to fill health financing gaps. Let’s look at the information together so we can hope for the best and prepare for, you know, the other thing. Alt text: A substack first: a bicep selfie! It’s my arm - peachy-white skin, black shirt (flannel, notch neck, too hot for this appallingly balmy November weather, if you’re wondering) and a sticker that says I VOTED 2026. Beige letters on red for I voted. Beige on blue for 2026. You bet I did.25 In your wildest dreams. Subscribe 1 This is a really, really rich 95 page document. There are fascinating ideas and detailed plans in it. It is all worth reading AND I have, in this post, highlighted an instance of content that could pose challenges and certainly posits success of strategies that haven’t worked before. I would love to hear what readers’ see that’s interesting and should be lifted up as something to check for in other implementation plans. I will also shortly be adding a static page to the substack site where implementation plan documents will live. I will put the url into this footnote and it will also be there on emilybass.substack.com by the end of the week. Uganda Implementation Narrative Section 4 April 22 2026 Draft 1.51MB ∙ PDF file Download Download 2 User fees are costs charged for visits, labs, medicines or other health services, usually at the time they are provided. Community health insurance, or community-based health insurance, is what the World Health Organization calls “micro insurance,” which is health insurance targeted at low-income people. 3 As usual (by which I mean always), please prove me wrong. 4 https://smartnewsliberia.com/liberias-ministry-of-health-announces-2025-hospital-service-fees-for-public-facilities/?utm 5 https://moh.gov.lr/news/2025/grand-cape-mount-leaders-residents-embrace-new-community-pharmacy-program/?utm 6 https://www.christianitytoday.com/2026/09/hiv-usaid-pepfar-africa-foreign-aid-cuts-mission-hospitals/?utm 7 https://gh.bmj.com/content/10/11/e021270 8 https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/community-based-health-insurance-CBHI 9 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2827475/ 10 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10861328/#b3-jpmph-23-110 11 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC527704/ 12 Same citation as the footnote 2 - the article is called “Learning from failed health care reform in Uganda.” To which I say: If only. If. Only. 13 There is a whole taxonomy of user fees to be aware of, if not commit to memory. Out of pocket costs are everything that someone pays for themselves. In this Stack, user fees are planned and policy-supported out of pocket costs. There are also out of pocket costs that people pay to buy drugs or receive tests or health care assessments that would be free if the drugs were on the shelves, or the machines or kits were available, or the staff were on site. A user fee is usually designed to be modest, pegged to willingness to pay, and may be waiveable at the point of care for anyone who is unable to do so. The costs for things that would otherwise be free are whatever the market will bear and people either have to pay them or go without. Out of pocket costs for services and stuff that aren’t available in public facilities are different again from bribes or unofficial fees that some health workers may impose, even though most are indefatigable, tireless and tired, and devoted to their clients. 14 For the record—which really is these footnotes—I would give a whole stack of fridge magnets for a systematic analysis of the economic and social impact of the Mass Unemployment Event in AFGHS countries among the very people who used to be able to afford and cover user fees, both for themselves and vast family networks. Locally employed USAID technical staff, house cleaners, caregivers, drivers and technicians were financial anchors for cousins, friends, friends’ children, friends’ childrens’ cousins, teachers, pastors, neighbors and so many other kinds of kin. Aid recipients lost direct funding; many other people who had not been aid recipients, but parts of the elaborate care webs that function as safety nets for so many people, lost crucial support too. And that’s even before we get to the people who worked at the hotels and restaurants and bars where people employed by the US and its implementing partners used to spend disposable income. Those businesses have lost revenue; those folks have lost jobs. It will be some time coming—and someone will have to fund this work—but I do hope it happens. And I hope, as usual, to be proven wrong. 15 https://eprcug.org/blog/how-out-of-pocket-healthcare-costs-keep-driving-ugandans-into-poverty/ 16 Another straight-to-the-point journal article title. Households experiencing catastrophic costs due to tuberculosis in Uganda: magnitude and cost drivers. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32938411 17 https://www.cehurd.org/download/technical-policy-brief-on-community-health-insurance-scheme/?wpdmdl=13661&refresh=6ae9122f5d4ed1793659439 18 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10125197/ 19 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10861328/#b3-jpmph-23-110 20 https://ugandapost.news/uganda-to-make-health-insurance-mandatory-by-2026/ 21 https://shu.org.ug/download/235 22 With a nod, tip of the stack hat, and wag of the Mercoon tail to a deeply valued reader who told me that I have a tendency to speculate about the worst-case scenarios a little too much of the time. 23 https://news.mak.ac.ug/2026/10/uphia-2025-shows-ugandas-hiv-status-awareness-gap-despite-strong-treatment-outcomes/ As you’ll see in the next footnote, I’ve already written a subSubstack on another topic, so I will be brief with regard to the study referenced in this article. The Uganda Population-Based HIV Impact Assessment, or UPHIA, will never happen in this way again. For more than a decade, PHIAs have been supported by the US government as a way to generate accurate estimates of country progress on key HIV indicators. They are a holdover from the PEPFAR program that was laser focused on ensuring US taxpayer dollars subsidized progress in pandemic control. There may be other population-level surveys and the data may even be publicly released, as the entire set of FY2026 MER data have not. But PHIAs will never happen again. If you’re wondering whether the estimates of HIV progress at country level might get less reliable….you’re not alone. 24 Ooh baby, I hate “we” in almost all forms. But sometimes I go there, when I am looking for company, which I am. Because this Stack moves into the somewhat-uncharted territory of assessing what the implementation plan narratives may suggest about co-signatory countries’ roles and responsibilities to the people living within their borders. The MoUs, specimen and data sharing agreements were templates. Countries’ answers fit into pre-specified questions that did not include, “how are you going to fill financing gaps and stabilize your health system as this plan unfolds?” In contrast, the implementation narratives are open form—the product of co-creation between the two governments. Co-creation can mean lots of things, but nothing leads me to believe that implementation plans are ghost-written by the US government, or that contents were imposed by the US counterparts. Instead, I think the parts of the plans that read like country government initiatives are endorsed, if not initiated by, those governments. For instance, the Ugandan implementation plan narrative describes plans for revenue-generation through fees charged for equipment calibration, repair and maintenance provided through Uganda’s National Equipment Calibration Laboratory, and laboratory accreditation through the Uganda National Accreditation Service (UGANAS), targeting private sector, PNFP, research and academic clients. That’s super specific and also quite ambitious. It doesn’t read like an American idea. There’s also a provision for solar panels, and other stuff that feels country owned and driven. This is where it gets interesting. If co-creation is the case, then both the US and co-signatory governments are accountable for the contents and the outcomes. Most discourse about AFGHS to date has focused on the decisions that America has made, or demanded that other countries make. The AFGHS architects have monopolized the hot seat. As they should, in so many ways. America absolutely created the conditions under which countries needed to come up with health financing strategies to fill unanticipated, catastrophic funding gaps. And with not-too-long a lens, we can look back and see that America is also on the hook for its role in the Bretton Woods institutions that made user fees and health system fiscal austerity conditions of loans during the era of structural adjustment. But in the here and now, it is not at all clear to me that the US is requiring Uganda or any other country to implement specific approaches to sustainable financing. Instead, it is as the authors of that paper up in footnote 6 suggest: African governments have agency. As implementation plans roll out—whether or not the narratives are shared—it will be important to understand what this agency looks like and what it means for people, including the poorest of the poor. And it will be important to figure out how to talk about it safely, respectfully and critically in places other than the literal and metaphorical footnotes. 25 This week’s song is “Once upon a time” by the Moody Blues. (I know, this is gonna be a weird, largely banger-free end of 2026 playlist. HMU with requests.) AND please do watch the video and appreciate the truly amazing opening sequence—a drum kit wasteland, a coupla plastic bags, a bit of sand. Sort of like the hill where fiscal austerity policies that put costs on health care users might go to perish. But then there’s a lady with amazing hair. It’s worth it.
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OpenAI: ChatGPT Search Is About 20% of Google’s, 250 Million People Speak With ChatGPT, and Chat Is Merging With Work
OpenAI says ChatGPT growth is accelerating. The company added 200 million users over just the past two months, jumping from 1 billion to 1.2 billion weekly active users in 60 days. Its search volume, it says, is approximately 20% of Google’s. Its users create 1.5 billion images with it per week. And its voice mode, between dictation and speaking with ChatGPT, now has 250 million combined weekly active users. ChatGPT consumer product lead Adam Fry told me this during a brief fireside chat at an OpenAI-hosted dinner in New York City on Monday night. “The growth is just going big,” he said. During our conversation, Fry also revealed plans to merge ChatGPT’s Chat and Work modes (so that confusing toggle up top will soon go away), agreed with feedback that ChatGPT-created restaurant signage looks too uniform, and addressed the cost to serve its personal assistant Dots. Here’s a look at our full conversation, lightly edited for clarity and length. We also cover image generation, interactive interfaces, advertising, education, and public unease about AI: Alex Kantrowitz: OpenAI has analyzed ChatGPT’s search volume and compared it with Google’s. What did you find? Adam Fry: ChatGPT has been growing quite quickly. ChatGPT’s volume of search-like queries is now roughly one-fifth the volume of queries of Google. It’s a pretty amazing statistic when you think about it, mainly because we started just about a year and a half ago. It’s hard to remember this, but ChatGPT at a time didn’t have any up-to-date information. You’d ask a question, it would say something like, “It’s past my training date,” and nobody had any idea what that meant. You’re saying ChatGPT’s search volume is one-fifth of Google’s. Bing’s share of the search market is around 5%. Does that make you multiple times larger than Bing? To say that more directly, ChatGPT has gone from one billion to 1.2 in just the last two months. That’s roughly 100 million users in 30 days, and another 100 million in another 30 days. The growth is just going big, and we’re staying very focused on how fast ChatGPT is growing. What counts as a search? I might have 20 prompts back and forth in a ChatGPT conversation. Does each one count as a query? Story continues below… A MESSAGE FROM OUR SPONSOR Move upmarket without a rebuild Moving upmarket means saying yes to what enterprise buyers ask for first: SSO, directory sync, and audit logs. WorkOS gives you all three, so your team keeps building the product instead of the checklist. Get enterprise-ready. Continued from above…. Adam Fry: What people came to ChatGPT for to start, if you go back about two years, is really writing help and coding help. Those wouldn’t be things that you really search for. What we’ve seen over the last year is people have grown into all these other topics. Things like you’re looking up a person or people or a place or a thing, and it requires up-to-date information. That’s a key element. Another big part is finance questions or health questions, where you really want to make sure it’s up-to-date information that’s quite factual, and we’ll do a web search for those questions. It’s basically anything that a user would have traditionally gone to a traditional search engine for, but is now deciding to go to ChatGPT for. Does each conversation with a search embedded count as one search, or does every question that requires a web search count? Every time you ask a question and go search the web, that’s a search. You used to work at Google. How would you say the nature of search is changing? One of the things that people really love about ChatGPT is this personalization and this understanding of the broader journey. If you look in the past, people would go for a Q&A box, and you’d ask a one-off question, like how tall is the Eiffel Tower. But there’s so much context in our lives around, “Maybe I’m taking a trip to Paris.” It’s actually helpful for ChatGPT to respond, “Here’s how tall the Eiffel Tower is, but I know you’re going on a trip to Paris.” It’s that ability for people to actually maintain context over time that has led them to start using ChatGPT in this way. You’ve also announced 250 million weekly active users of voice input, including dictation and conversations with voice mode. We are at 250 million weekly active users. What’s amazing about this is, if you look at those 250 million, what we’re seeing is it’s actually also incremental to the product. It’s no longer just a novelty. People aren’t just trying out voice. We’re seeing them use voice input day to day in their daily life, and it’s grown so quickly. Those 250 million users are using voice input, and that could just be a quick question or a long conversation. We’re seeing both behaviors. We’re seeing people just not want to type. You just hold it and start talking to it, or it turns into a longer conversation where people just sit with it. The big reason for this is the frontier capabilities of our models that we’ve shipped. We shipped what we call GPT Live 1, and then we shipped GPT Live 1.1. The big change with this is that it’s much more natural to speak with. It’s something we call backchanneling and interruptibility. Mhhhm… What you just did there is what the model does, because it’s really good at having a bidirectional conversation. That push to the frontier—we were the first to really release this at scale—has made it so much more natural for people to chat. That’s still only about 20% of the user base. From the outside, that looks small. Why is it exciting from the inside? It’s very exciting for a few reasons. We see from the data that when people start using voice, they stay around using voice. One of the things, transparently, we can do a better job of is bringing more people into discovering it. We see that the number of people who discover it could be a lot higher. But once they do, it’s a really new way for people to interact with AI. We’ve made a lot of improvements to it too, where we’re just going to see the number go up. You have background mode, so now by default, if you close the app, it’ll show, “Hey, the conversation’s still going.” If you want to walk around the house or you’re putting away the groceries, you can still have a chat. That kind of continuity has also changed how much people use it. Dots launched on September 29 and is about a month old. How’s it doing? It’s doing great. We talk to people about their Dot, and the first thing that everyone says is, “I love my Dot.” One of the reasons we’re seeing this is the proactivity, its ability to reach out to you and figure out things. The biggest use case I see all the time is, “Did I forget something today that I was supposed to do?” You can just say to your Dot, “Remind me of things at the end of the day that I may have forgotten. Somebody emailed me or messaged me,” and it’ll do that. This Dot changes the paradigm of the relationship with AI, where it’s actually helping you and giving you time back. You’re more conservative with permissions than some competitors. I tried to give my Dot my credit card, and it wouldn’t take it. With the creator of OpenClaw in-house, why are Dots’ permissions more limited? This is a space where we want to be very thoughtful and conservative because it’s a new space where you’re entrusting your Dot to take care of things on behalf of you that matter and are meaningful. We’ve just talked about how you go to this 1.2 billion user growth and asking questions. Now we’re asking people, “Can you ask ChatGPT or your Dot to help get things done?” But when you ask it to help get things done, it’s a whole new level of trust. We’ve built up a tremendous amount of trust in giving the right answers to your questions, and we want to make sure that when we build this new product, it has a high degree of trust. It’s a long game. We think this is going to be a new market for a very long time, and we want to make sure that we’re being this trusted player in the market to start. I initially thought Dots would be available on my $20 plan, then realized I had to spend $100 a month to get it. I upgraded, but I’d like to downgrade at some point…. We hope to keep earning your business and make the value good enough. It’s a really good point. ChatGPT’s goal more broadly, which I think is unique for us in the market, is we are focused on bringing intelligence to everyone safely across the entire world. For Dots in particular, there’s no difference. We don’t have anything to share tonight about the date of when Dots will go to a broader set of users. But you can rest assured we’re working very hard, and there are a couple things we have to get right. Over time we’re going to work on more efficient, agentic models that are able and capable of doing things for you. The first one is, right now we wanted to make sure that your Dot is actually really helpful. We started with some of our best models, but over time we’re going to work on more efficient, agentic models that are able and capable of doing things for you. The second thing is around proactivity. We’re still dialing in: How much do I message you to help you get things done? We can always play around with that to understand how much usage should a user use to have a successful Dot. We’re going to work on both, and our goal and ambition is to bring it out to all users. How much background computing does a Dot require? I’ve read estimates that serving a $100 subscriber might cost OpenAI $3,000 in compute, and mine seems to read every email that arrives. How often is it checking connected data sources? Right now, Dots are on the compute-heavier side, and this is one of the things we want to make sure that we can dial back over time. But the goal is to give you the best product. This is our premium, always-on personal assistant. Once we nail that, we’ll figure out how to dial back the compute needs. The thing we’re seeing also from our models, as we train frontier models, is just how—I can’t even keep up with how quickly we have a new model, and each new model is more efficient. If you looked at 6.1 Sol when it came out relative to Astra, much more efficient. I’m very excited about the next set of models we have coming too that’ll be even more efficient that we can use. Elon Musk said the cost of serving Grok Bot was unsustainably high relative to revenue. Is efficiency the key to winning against competitors, or is there more to it? There are a couple of factors that go into it. One is the cost side, but the other is the revenue side. On ChatGPT and on our consumer business, we’ve been extremely proud of our ability to diversify different revenue streams in a way that’s growing really fast. To give you another stat, we announced several months back that we had passed 50 million subscriptions, and the number has grown considerably since then. On ads, within 200 days, we reached more than a billion in ARR, and that business is growing extremely quickly. We also have credits. Rather than paying for subscriptions, users can buy more credits. Between credits, subscriptions, and ads, I’m confident that the value of a Dot is going to be able to pay for itself. Elon has subscriptions too. This is clearly an expensive product to serve. One thing we continue to bet on at OpenAI and ChatGPT more broadly is that the models will continue to get much better and much cheaper, way faster than any of us think. If you look back at the historicals on it, it continues to be true. From what I’ve seen, I see no slowing down of that. What is Meta doing right with Muse? It has spent a lot of time atop the App Store charts. There are a couple of things they’ve done well. The first is people have been craving simplicity in their products. One of the things we have stated publicly as well is, at times AI products can be too complex. We’ve announced we’re merging ChatGPT’s Chat and Work. We’re making it much more simple in the products. You don’t have as many toggles or sliders between efforts and different model pickers. One of the things they’ve done well is this simplicity. You just go in and you can ask a question. You don’t have to think too much about what you’re doing. That’s one thing that seems to have resonated with users, which we also believe in. Second, there’s something really nice about being able to access your agent across many different channels. We just announced and launched Dots on iMessage. Whether you talk to your Dot on email or iMessage or within the ChatGPT app, the ubiquity in getting your assistant out there is going to be key. Those are two things that, if I had to be nice to our competitors, I would say were two big ones. So Alexandr Wang’s meme-tweeting strategy isn’t something you’re going to emulate? I have a different tweeting style. ChatGPT still asks me to choose between Chat and Work, even though some people call this technology AGI. Will that distinction go away? Couldn’t agree more. We have to solve this. Asking users to choose — we’ve heard repeatedly from all of our users it’s too much to understand. When should you go to Chat? When should you go to Work? It’s solvable. There’s real research to solve to make sure the models can understand what your intent is. Are you asking for a fast, quick reply? Are you asking me to go do a long agentic task? We’re going to solve it, and the plan is to bring Chat and Work together. So one interface will work out whether I’m asking for a conversation or a task. When? Coming soon. You told me the majority of ChatGPT’s 1.2 billion users are using image functionality. What are they doing? Today, 1.5 billion images are created per week. It’s hard to even wrap my head around that number. They’re doing a wide range of things. One of the most interesting things they’ve started to do is really use it for productivity use cases. The first thing it started with—I don’t know if you saw the ’80s trend, but it was quite fun. You could take a photo of yourself and say, “Put me and my family in ’80s outfits.” I did this for my family, and it was a really fun poster. But what we’re also seeing is businesses for their menus, or posters for birthdays. People are using it almost in a productivity-like fashion to create visual diagrams of what they would like to see. We’ve actually brought the latency down on images as well, so it’s gotten a lot faster. It went from a very high number of seconds to getting much faster. As it comes down even further, the number of images people are creating and the number of use cases is going to grow a lot. My feature request: When a restaurant makes a menu or sign, prompt it for more specificity so it doesn’t look like every other AI-generated restaurant sign. Or offer a shuffle button for a different style. I agree with the feedback, and we’ll take it to the team. I’m seeing ChatGPT generate little interactive interfaces within its answers. What’s the direction for Intelligent UI, and how are people using it? I am extremely excited about Intelligent UI. If you go back a couple years, these chat apps were all text, and now that’s changing. They’re going to be visuals. Intelligent UI and our first attempt at this with GPT-6 Intelligent UI is really just the beginning. As you go to the extreme, what you can imagine is, let’s say you’re using voice mode, and you just say, “Show me how offside works.” Immediately it should show you a visual diagram, and you say, “No, I don’t quite understand it.” It should just repopulate. That’s where the future of this technology goes. It’s almost like you’re talking to a canvas that will update and change. People are finding it helpful for a lot of things. My favorite one is—it’s hard to admit that I had no idea how hearts work. The last biology course I took was in high school. I just asked it, “How does the heart work?” and it instantly gave me a beautiful interactive diagram of where blood flows and how it goes through. I’m really, really bullish on this for learning in particular. You’ve described useful applications in finance, health, and learning, and ChatGPT has 1.2 billion users. If people are getting so much value, why is public polling on AI so negative? The reality with AI is it is going to change the nature of how work gets done. For a lot of people, that is something that can feel scary at times, and we’ve all felt that. But I remain confident that when people actually use the product and they use AI, it very quickly changes how they perceive it. We’re at 1.2 billion, but there are still a lot of people who haven’t used it. The more people use it, get familiar with it, how it can actually help you in your life, it’s going to feel a lot less scary. Big Technology is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. Thanks!! Subscribe
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