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Why wouldn't corporations and users just stick to the original AI chat model that gave them the best results the first time? I think that people are lazy about
by lhnz 3y ago
Why wouldn't corporations and users just stick to the original AI chat model that gave them the best results the first time? I think that people are lazy about switching because it's very difficult to personally validate whether something is better or worse quickly/robustly, and when you do get bad responses it's really annoying and makes you churn back to the original model that you used.
I do sometimes wonder whether they could be replaced with a free model running on a user's local machine, however, on the other hand we might always wish to pay for best-in-class (according to some evaluation criteria, that we eventually give up on trying to self-evaluate).
- jeromegv 3y agoWhile I’m sure that once we reach the good enough stage, people will be too lazy to switch. But I don’t think we are there yet. Especially if another one can make you save lots of time. It’s like the beginning of search engines. Altavista. Yahoo. Lycos. There was a lot going on but none of them were good enough. Once google showed up, people switched permanently and rarely switched back. But that took years. And also that took billions of dollars to buy the default search box (creating a whole new browser or paying apple for the iOS search bar)
- jsnell 3y agoWe've seen this story with all kinds of technologies in the past (Symbian and Blackberry -> iOS and Android. Yahoo and Altavista -> Google. Netscape -> IE, IE -> Chrome. Lotus/WordPerfect -> Word/Excel.) Most potential users are not actually yet a users of any products in this space. Also while nobody will just spontaneously switch to an equally good or worse product, transformative improvements can and do happen. Finally, users can be swayed by discounts and marketing to switch to an equally good or only slighly better product.