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I would add startups to the list in addition to the more explicitly negative groups that you mention. There's a tremendous amount of both reputational risk and
by foob 4y ago
I would add startups to the list in addition to the more explicitly negative groups that you mention. There's a tremendous amount of both reputational risk and technical/organizational inertia to overcome in Amazon overhauling Alexa to use LLMs for responses, but much less for a new startup because they have far less to lose. Same for Apple with Siri, or Google with Google Assistant. I expect that we'll see exciting changes in these products before too long, but they're inherently going to be more conservative about existing products than new competitors will be.
- dangets 4y agoYes and no. That same inertia of the larger companies allows them to stay in business even after large missteps. Remember Lenovo built-in Superfish [0]? Amazon/Apple/Google are entrenched enough that can take risks, apologize, rollback, and wait for short term memory to pass and release the v2 under a different product name. Across all startups, yes they can be risky and there will be innovative outliers that take off. But for a single no-name startup a misstep can be a death knell. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfish