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It isn’t a crazy hypothesis to say products will require AI to perform specific tasks repeatedly. How many products that can be improved by AI today need a gene
by ericmcer 4y ago
It isn’t a crazy hypothesis to say products will require AI to perform specific tasks repeatedly. How many products that can be improved by AI today need a generalist chatbot trained on the entire internet.
Almost none, they all have a specific task that a specifically trained bot could do way cheaper.
The counter to this is AI is so cheap and easy people lazily use it for everything even though it is using .1% of its training data.
- dwallin 4y agoWhether or not a specialized solution could do it better or cheaper, it might not matter if the generalized solution does it well enough. A sufficiently powerful generalized solution can erase entire product categories and industries. Think of how many different devices and services were replaced by a single device we now all carry around in our pocket. Some industries just need to pivot slightly, others need to pivot hard, but it’s really hard to predict ahead of time.
- im3w1l 4y agoThe question isn't whether a generalist chatbot is needed. The question is whether a generalist chatbot is the easiest and cheapest way to go. And so far, looks to be the case.