Comment by timewizard
1 year ago
> a wiki page tens of thousands of words long in tables too large and ill-formatted for anyone to possibly glean
This is what a "job security fortress" looks like when management has more money and less sense than they know what to do with.
> a solid half of the engineers could vanish to very little detriment.
They need to rethink their entire strategy. What on earth possessed them to believe I wanted "summaries" of communications which have an average length of far less than 100 words anyways.
If "prompt engineering" and "phantom husbands" are a thing you don't have a viable mass market product.
Nobody currently has a mass-market killer app for AI. Everyone is building out capabilities so they can quickly implement one when it arrives, while they fool around with various silly applications in the meantime. Currently text summarization (as realized) isn’t the killer app, but Apple is smart to have built all the infrastructure nonetheless.
> Nobody currently has a mass-market killer app for AI.
There's literally millions of them. The gulf is that the current technology cannot possibly do any of those things.
> Everyone is building out capabilities
They're burning billions on a method that has already started showing diminishing returns. There's no exponential growth on the horizon with the current stack.
> while they fool around with various silly applications in the meantime
If you told me this was your business plan I would short everything of yours I could.
> but Apple is smart to have built all the infrastructure nonetheless.
An infrastructure that will be outdated and unjustifiably expensive in 5 years. It's like we're pretending that the history of business for all time has nothing to do with the business of AI.
Those unwilling to stare history in the face will be eaten by it.
chatgpt is undeniably the killer app for LLMs
I deny it. Who wants to have a conversation with a computer that’s just stringing bullshit together in the way it thinks sounds most plausibly human? I’d rather talk to… a human.
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