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Really interesting to look at this from a product perspective. I've been obsessively looking at it from an AI user perspective, but instead of thinking of it as
by ngngngng 3y ago
Really interesting to look at this from a product perspective. I've been obsessively looking at it from an AI user perspective, but instead of thinking of it as a "moat", I just keep thinking of the line from Disney's The Incredibles, "And when everyone is super, no one will be."
Every app that I might build utilizing AI is really just a window, or a wrapper into the model itself. Everything is easy to replicate. Why would anyone pay for my AI wrapper when they could just build THING themselves? Or just wait until GPT-{current+1} when the model can do THING directly, followed swiftly by free and open source models being able to do THING as well.
- sdenton4 3y agoJust gotta get to the point where we can just ask the model to code the wrapper we want to use it with...
- ngngngng 3y agoAny wrapper that needs writing speaks to a gap in the AI's current capabilities. I just don't see why or how I would put man-hours into trying to close that gap when a future model could eclipse my work at any time.
- unraveller 3y agoyou've got future frostbite
- bbor 3y agoThe problem is that I can't think of a reason not to apply this same concern to basically all knowledge work -- once it can code new wrappers, it'll probably also be obsoleting huge swathes of other skillsets. And given current models, that really doesn't seem that far off. Personally it kinda feels like working at a company with impending layoffs... But somehow my landlord isn't taking that as an excuse to stop working?? B.S.
- Nick87633 3y agoBecause people pay for convenience, and may not be technical enough to stay up to date on the latest and best AI company for their use case. Presumably your specialized app would switch to better AI instances for that use case as they come along in which case they're paying for your curation as well.
- ngngngng 3y agoMaybe. It just seems to me that every single angle of AI has this same moat issue. It's like the generation ship problem. Send a ship to the stars today, and before it gets there technology might advance such that the second ship we send gets there before the first. How do you justify the capital necessary to stand out in an AI driven marketplace when the next models could make your business obsolete at any time?