Brittany Luce

AI chatbots?

At least they want to be.

Taste is the new Silicon Valley buzzword.

From venture capitalists to AI opportunity peddlers, these guys seem to think that good taste will be the one thing that will set you apart from everyone in your life and the one thing that will get you to buy their product.

But what is taste really?

And can an AI bot replicate it?

I'm here with Kyle Chayka, staff writer at The New Yorker, and Kate Wagner, architecture critic at The Nation, to find out.

Kyle, Kate, each of you, both of you, welcome back to It's Been a Minute.

Thank you.

Yes.

Oh my God.

And you know why?

Because I say so.

That's what I like to hear.

Hello, hello.

I'm Brittany Luce, and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR, a show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident.

Kyle, you just wrote an excellent piece about Silicon Valley's new obsession with

with quote unquote taste.

But I want to hear from the both of you, like, what are we talking about when we talk about taste?

I love that.