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.
