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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

@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.