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what's so strange about the current ai goldrush to me is that almost every implementation of it in an existing product is exactly the same. every product i use is trying to convince me to use its new ai feature. but it's like… the same feature. in every product. it's so… boring?
i can't really think of a good comparison. ai is a big deal, it's not a gimmick, it'll change the world or whatever. that was also true of, say, the internet. and there was a goldrush there, and i'm sure there were tons of gimmicks. but it looked very different for every product.
what's the value in sticking a text box connected to chatgpt in every single product. it's still just chatgpt
imagine if we had only just now discovered the calculator, and it was mainly available as a cloud service from open arithmetic dot com. imagine if every app added a different shiny new button to open a calculator, as a built-in feature, but it was always the same cloud service
a world where what you need is excel but what you get is word with sentient clippy
cashing in on the popularity of “who wants to be a millionaire” by adding phone-a-friend to all our apps
https://social.noyu.me/@hikari/statuses/01HXZ58NAQ84WJYYEV09YHY2ZA
@hikari I think this is mostly true for anything llm related. Other Ai's like some of NVIDIA stuff or even TikTok filters, or Samsung magic eraser differ a lot.
@hikari Well, I would not be surprised if most calculators were built using a central chip, of which there were only a few types, from select manufacturers.
@hikari you can put it on the box!
@hikari definitely at the “hey we have this tech if you find something novel or cool to do with it, please let us know!” stage.
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@VictimOfSimony@infosec.exchange
Someone I know gets irrationally hopping angry about this. Whenever they see news coverage of anything #ChatGPT4o-related they start shouting, "that's just Siri! This isn't news! We already have that!"