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The bottleneck isn’t the people doing the work but the leadership’s bandwidth for strategic thinking
by whiplash451 11mo ago
The bottleneck isn’t the people doing the work but the leadership’s bandwidth for strategic thinking
- tiahura 11mo agoHow is strategic thinking going to produce novel ideas about neural networks?
- ceejayoz 11mo agoThe strategic thinking revolves around "how do we put ads in without everyone getting massively pissed?" sort of questions.
- therein 11mo agoNot sure how that would be done without pissing people off. But you know what sounds good right now? A fresh bowl of Kellogg's Rice Crispy Treats. Would you like me to load Instacart for you?
- doubled112 11mo agoI was shocked to see Prime Video display a button to open the Amazon store to the product that was playing in the ad.
- whiplash451 11mo agoExactly. Which takes a decade and a lot of thinking to get right
- kokanee 11mo agoI think it's a matter of public perception and user sentiment. You don't want to shove ads into a product that people are already complaining about. And you don't want the media asking questions like why you rolled out a "health assistant" at the same time you were scrambling to address major safety, reliability, and legal challenges.
- stanford_labrat 11mo agochatgpt making targeted "recommendations" (read ads) is a nightmare. especially if it's subtle and not disclosed.
- tracerbulletx 11mo agoThe end game is its a sales person and not only is it suggesting things to you undisclosed. It's using all of the emotional mechanisms that a sales person uses to get you to act.
- boringg 11mo ago100% end game - no way to finance all this AI development without ads sadly - % of sales isn't going to be enough - we will eventually get the natural enshittification of chatbots as with all things that go through these funding models.
- Terr_ 11mo agoMy go-to example is The Truman Show [0], where the victi--er, customer is under an invisible and omnipresent influence towards a certain set of beliefs and spending habits. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzKSQrhX7BM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzKSQrhX7BM
- HPsquared 11mo agoIt'll be hard to separate them out from the block of prose. It's not like Google results where you can highlight the sponsored ones.
- sien 11mo agoIf only they had a tool that they claim could help with things like that....