Can they build a product that will just go out and make money for me? Because that’s the only thing I really want.
AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products
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https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/ai-companies-are-pivoting-from-creating
lvxferre@mander.xyz 9 months ago
Good luck now selling those products, given the negative sentiment around products being advertise as having “AI”.
Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com 9 months ago
Eh that one study was mostly about stupid products like “AI coffee machine” or “AI fridge”. AI products that make sense sell pretty well.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 9 months ago
At least acc. to TechSpot, the negative sentiment is general. It’s just more pronounced for some products (high risk and/or price) than others.
So even where plopping a LLM or similar would make sense, there’ll be likely strong market resistance.
The fact that plenty actually sensible products are plagued with issues due to GAFAM disingenuousness/stupidity doesn’t help either. (See: Windows Recall, Google abusing search monopoly to feed its AI, etc.)
PersonalDevKit@aussie.zone 9 months ago
Smartphones were a joke until the iPhone. There will be some resistance, but someone will crack the code to make it easily acceptable and then the race is away with the AI products
lvxferre@mander.xyz 9 months ago
I do think that some technologies currently being marketed as AI might eventually become features of popularly used products. However:
As such I partially agree with your conclusion (although I’m not too eager to utter certainty on future events). The reasoning that you used to back it up (analogy with smartphones) is bad though, due to survivorship bias.