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AI tokens are a commodity. They're the bottom of the value-chain and they're all converging onto the same performance. What matters for the future is what kill
by lelanthran 1y ago
AI tokens are a commodity. They're the bottom of the value-chain and they're all converging onto the same performance.
What matters for the future is what killer apps can be built on this commodity (tokens)?
Right now we've got content/text generation and ... nothing else?
- ajsnigrutin 1y ago> What matters for the future is what killer apps can be built on this commodity (tokens)? AI chatbots in pdf viewers! Oh wait.. we already have that and it's useless.
- blitzar 1y agoHi, I'm Clippy! It looks like you are trying to read a document. Do you need assistance?
- ajsnigrutin 1y ago- Introduction to C programming language.pdf "I see you're trying to kill children, may I recommend the following methods: - zyklon B - hammer - shotgun"
- owebmaster 1y ago> Right now we've got content/text generation and ... nothing else? Software operators. LLMs can operate any kind of software (check MCP). If you reduce this to just "text generation", what else is left?
- solid_fuel 1y ago> LLMs can operate any kind of software (check MCP). But they can't be trusted to do so in a reliable and sane way. Until the issues with hallucination and prompt adherence are resolved, including the issues with context injection, LLMs aren't any more useful for general software operation than `/dev/urandom` is. Every time we get a "Gemini deleted my production database!" story everyone goes "well obviously you shouldn't have trusted it with production access". I don't play russian roulette with my CLI, why would I add a layer of uncertainty on top?