Gen AI Consumer Apps

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Post by daralthus » Thu, Mar 14, 2024, 12:59 AM UTC

Gen AI Consumer Apps
a16z.com

Re: Gen AI Consumer Apps

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Post by hatenberg » Thu, Mar 14, 2024, 8:17 AM UTC

It’s adorable to see A16z flailing to make GenAI happen.

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Post by stephen37 » Thu, Mar 14, 2024, 9:26 AM UTC

What is Character.AI doing special to have that much more engagement than other apps?

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Post by jhbadger » Thu, Mar 14, 2024, 11:00 AM UTC

stephen37 wrote: post #3

What is Character.AI doing special to have that much more engagement than other apps?

It basically makes making characters you can chat with pretty easy. As in defining their motivations, personalities, etc. Obviously with good prompting you can do this with most LLM-based systems, but they've optimized for this use case.

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Post by mvdtnz » Thu, Mar 14, 2024, 3:03 PM UTC

hatenberg wrote: post #2

It’s adorable to see A16z flailing to make GenAI happen.

Gotta do something to follow up their incredible NFT success.

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Post by smusamashah » Thu, Mar 14, 2024, 3:08 PM UTC

Is there an LLM/ChatGPT based alternative for Google's Voice Assistant on android? I see that as the most appropriate use case. ChatGPT will do many times better than Google Assistant (or may be Siri, not an iPhone user).

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Post by jimmygrapes » Thu, Mar 14, 2024, 3:32 PM UTC

smusamashah wrote: post #6

Is there an LLM/ChatGPT based alternative for Google's Voice Assistant on android? I see that as the most appropriate use case. ChatGPT will do many times better than Google Assistant (or may be Siri, not an iPhone user).

I keep getting reminded by my phone to switch to using Gemini instead of the old assistant, fwiw

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Post by LanternLight83 » Thu, Mar 14, 2024, 3:33 PM UTC

smusamashah wrote: post #6

Is there an LLM/ChatGPT based alternative for Google's Voice Assistant on android? I see that as the most appropriate use case. ChatGPT will do many times better than Google Assistant (or may be Siri, not an iPhone user).

Not that I'm aware of, but I've ran LLM's in Termux myself and am pretty it's not a huge leap from there to a simple python scaffold with a restricted grammer (the kind llama supports, for consistant structured output) and a Tasker integration. Hardest part would be trigger-word activation (maybe hardware key-bind is enough fr u?). It would probably run well locally with the all the cumulative speedups over the past year, but I do bet it would drain your battery more than Google Assistant, and am not sure that moving it over the network would change that.

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Post by markusstrasser » Thu, Mar 14, 2024, 3:54 PM UTC

stephen37 wrote: post #3

What is Character.AI doing special to have that much more engagement than other apps?

smarter waifus for the wicked

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Post by lancesells » Thu, Mar 14, 2024, 4:11 PM UTC

stephen37 wrote: post #3

What is Character.AI doing special to have that much more engagement than other apps?

Get put into these articles without a mention of funding from the publishers of the article? Mentioned five times but I'm not sure I see anything that says they're in the portfolio.