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I totally understand the need for an "on-rails" model. However I've found that using it as a personal assistant and for some automation tasks it suffers. The

I totally understand the need for an "on-rails" model. However I've found that using it as a personal assistant and for some automation tasks it suffers. The fact that it has only gotten worse as judged by humans doesn't inspire confidence for me. I could totally understand offering two options, but they're going so far it's actually unusable for many tasks. The famous case it refused to "kill a python process".

frognumber 3y ago
Here's the thing about business models in this domain: You don't win by generality or working for as many tasks as possible. You win by being the best at something. I will pick the best tool for the job I'm doing, be that writing product descriptions, conversational agent, or tech support. Runner-up has a chance -- for example, by lowering margins, or simply by being subsidized by investors in hopes of moving into #1. However, the difference between "unusable" and "fourth-best" is negligible in terms of business returns. I won't pick your product. There isn't a snowball's chance of "safe AI" being #1, or even #5, for what you want to use it for. It might as well be unusable. It needs to be #1 in the niche it's targeting. (The above isn't universal; there are places where bundling many types of functionality has synergy; this just isn't one of them).