Comment by rhetocj23
11 days ago
But google and amazon were obvious to those in the know, in terms of what they delivered.
S Jobs called it back in 1995-97 - he referred to it as shopping for information and shopping for good and services.
Nobody has this crystal clear, tangible vision re. LLMs. Nobody at all. That is a big problem.
I found the interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqSfFcaluHc&t=1700s
Personally I never tougth of Google as a dotcom era company. Most of those were landing pages with news and chat rooms.
It was more of web 2.0 company.
It was founded 1998, very much dotcom era, and had no significant web 2.0 products for years after that.
Gmail and Google Maps were prototypical 2.0.
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And the term 2.0 was coined in 1999.
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Because LLMs are a technology, not a business.
Ultimately it doesn't matter who survives the AI bubble, because they are all more or less equivalent, proposing the same technical solution.