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Nobody currently has a mass-market killer app for AI. Everyone is building out capabilities so they can quickly implement one when it arrives, while they fool a

Nobody currently has a mass-market killer app for AI. Everyone is building out capabilities so they can quickly implement one when it arrives, while they fool around with various silly applications in the meantime. Currently text summarization (as realized) isn’t the killer app, but Apple is smart to have built all the infrastructure nonetheless.

timewizard 2y ago
> Nobody currently has a mass-market killer app for AI. There's literally millions of them. The gulf is that the current technology cannot possibly do any of those things. > Everyone is building out capabilities They're burning billions on a method that has already started showing diminishing returns. There's no exponential growth on the horizon with the current stack. > while they fool around with various silly applications in the meantime If you told me this was your business plan I would short everything of yours I could. > but Apple is smart to have built all the infrastructure nonetheless. An infrastructure that will be outdated and unjustifiably expensive in 5 years. It's like we're pretending that the history of business for all time has nothing to do with the business of AI. Those unwilling to stare history in the face will be eaten by it.
8note 2y ago
chatgpt is undeniably the killer app for LLMs
- dcrazy 2y ago
  I deny it. Who wants to have a conversation with a computer that’s just stringing bullshit together in the way it thinks sounds most plausibly human? I’d rather talk to… a human.
  - MichaelZuo 2y ago
    Hundreds of millions of people…?
    - dcrazy 2y ago
      Millions of people used AOL but it was not the killer app for the Internet. We are at the beginning of the LLM lifecycle and have yet to figure out what niche it will best fill.
      - MichaelZuo 2y ago
        Based on what arguments…? Any HN user can declare any opinion whatsoever regarding “killer apps” but that doesn’t automatically make their opinions true or meaningful.

timewizard 2y ago

> Nobody currently has a mass-market killer app for AI. There's literally millions of them. The gulf is that the current technology cannot possibly do any of those things. > Everyone is building out capabilities They're burning billions on a method that has already started showing diminishing returns. There's no exponential growth on the horizon with the current stack. > while they fool around with various silly applications in the meantime If you told me this was your business plan I would short everything of yours I could. > but Apple is smart to have built all the infrastructure nonetheless. An infrastructure that will be outdated and unjustifiably expensive in 5 years. It's like we're pretending that the history of business for all time has nothing to do with the business of AI. Those unwilling to stare history in the face will be eaten by it.

8note 2y ago

chatgpt is undeniably the killer app for LLMs

dcrazy 2y ago
I deny it. Who wants to have a conversation with a computer that’s just stringing bullshit together in the way it thinks sounds most plausibly human? I’d rather talk to… a human.
- MichaelZuo 2y ago
  Hundreds of millions of people…?
  - dcrazy 2y ago
    Millions of people used AOL but it was not the killer app for the Internet. We are at the beginning of the LLM lifecycle and have yet to figure out what niche it will best fill.
    - MichaelZuo 2y ago
      Based on what arguments…? Any HN user can declare any opinion whatsoever regarding “killer apps” but that doesn’t automatically make their opinions true or meaningful.