Comment by matthewdgreen
1 year ago
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An infrastructure that will be outdated and unjustifiably expensive in 5 years.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.
Hundreds of millions of people…?
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