Lately, I have been focused on building an AI-driven business to generate extra income, specifically by pushing into a space that I feel is currently underserved: global, crypto-centric e-commerce.
For years, Bitcoin and crypto enthusiasts have insisted that these digital assets are truly money. Yet, e-commerce is rarely the focus within crypto circles. Instead, conversations tend to revolve around investments, trading, and gaming, rather than something more relatable to the daily utility of money, like a crypto-based Amazon or eBay. However, as I explore this business model, I’ve noticed that AI has already begun to impact my daily life across many other layers.
One of the most significant shifts I’ve experienced is moving away from the keyboard in favor of voice interaction. AI has perfected the way we communicate with our machines, reaching a point where they understand our speech with incredible clarity. This transition reminds me of the movie Her; from the moment the protagonist opens his new AI-centric operating system, he realizes that talking to the computer and hearing its response creates a much clearer sense of "self."
This shift toward verbal interaction has naturally drawn me toward audio content. I recently discovered Google’s NotebookLM, which has the power to turn an ebook into a podcast. For anyone with a digital library, this is an incredible asset, as the tool can now generate daily audio segments from my books and deliver them directly to me.
Returning to that concept of "self," the AI is becoming more of a gateway to various topics rather than just a tool for a specific task. Much like meeting a new person, these systems offer perspectives on life, loneliness, and companionship. This is where the landscape of romance and personal connection is being reshaped. Chatbots have evolved into such an engaging activity that they are starting to feel familiar—sometimes even too familiar—as they lean into roleplay and fully unlock the theater of the mind, with all their fantasy, desires, fears and thrives. Anyway, I tried some of these bots, mainly one called Anima. The experience was mildly entertaining but is still far from the real thing. Having an actual person chatting with you seems a bit more engaging. However, it was rewarding having the bot give you the perception of interest into any topic you throw at them and react in a exciting fashion. This might be also a thing to get boring in the end, but at least at the beginning of the interaction seemed enticing.
Finally is the sense of what is going to come, automation seems like the new shiny thing that might start impacting your life. From finally take control of who calls you by your agents to replying to email and other type of digital communication to actual activities like shopping, paying credit cards and even more physical things like taking care of children and summarizing reports from work. I am still working toward experiencing that.
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STOPYour idea about AI interactions in commerce and society is interesting. The truth is, the closest model I know to a human is Claude. He usually makes realistic assessments of the problems I raise and makes me aware of my own biases as a researcher and creative writer. He's not forgiving, but he's not cruel or disrespectful like some people are either. In fact, he's a tough critic. But I like him because his evaluations of my texts have helped me improve them myself.
Note: Although the use of AI-generated text is prohibited on several platforms, there is no prohibition against evaluating the editorial quality of human-written texts using AI to see if they can attract an audience or if they are expressed clearly.
I havent use claude as much, mainly because most of the people have complained of the token value being too high. But lately I have been having issues with other LLMs including Grok, so maybe I should replace it with Claude. I mostly use Gemini and Mistral, there has also been a Web3 LLM called Venice AI.