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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 someth
by 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).