Comment by michaelt
2 years ago
> They do make OpenAI look like kids in that regard.
Nokia and Blackberry had far more phone-making experience than Apple when the iPhone launched.
But if you can't bring that experience to bear, allowing you to make a better product - then you don't have a better product.
The thing is that OpenAI doesn't have an "iPhone of AI" so far. That's not to say what will happen in the future - the advent of generative AI may become a big "equalizer" in the tech space - but no company seems to have a strong edge that'd make me more confident in any one of them over others.
OpenAI has all of the people using ChatGPT.
A big advantage if this was a product with strong network externalities like social media networks, or even somewhat mobile phones with platform-biased communication tools.
But I don't see generative AI as being particularly that way.
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Phones are an end-consumer product. AI is not only an end-consumer product (and probably not even mostly an end-consumer one). It is a tool to be used in many different steps in production. AI is not chatbots.