AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products

Post by __MatrixMan__ » Tue, Aug 20, 2024, 4:04 AM UTC

KineticLensman wrote: post #129

tux1968 wrote: post #75

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It was likely the same back when the steam engine was invented. Everyone who could start a steam engine company, started a steam engine company. Because learning how to be a steam engine company was difficult, new, and unique. It would be a while before finding all the products that could be sold to people incorporating that new tech.

Tech was very different then. The first commercial steam Engine appeared in 1712 - big static thing thing that could pump water out of mines. It took about about 100 years until 1804 to get to a steam engine small but powerful enough to pull a train. Mines and factories were pretty much the only users for decades and there were very few people who had a steam engine for the sake of it

Post by siruncledrew » Tue, Aug 20, 2024, 4:21 AM UTC

ryandrake wrote: post #34

Companies keep going at it the wrong way. Instead of saying "We have AI, let's find products we can make out of AI!" they should be saying, "What products do people want, let's use whatever tools we have (including maybe AI) to make them." The idea that a company is an AI company should be as ridiculous as a company being a Python company. "We are Python-first, have Python experts, and all of our products are made wi…

Post by widenrun » Tue, Aug 20, 2024, 4:45 AM UTC

ryandrake wrote: post #34

Companies keep going at it the wrong way. Instead of saying "We have AI, let's find products we can make out of AI!" they should be saying, "What products do people want, let's use whatever tools we have (including maybe AI) to make them." The idea that a company is an AI company should be as ridiculous as a company being a Python company. "We are Python-first, have Python experts, and all of our products are made wi…

Post by ebcode » Tue, Aug 20, 2024, 4:59 AM UTC

GeneralMayhem wrote: post #134

slavboj wrote: post #97

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A ton of the industrial revolution was actually motivated by that input-driven thinking. You don't decide you want an Eiffel Tower from first principles, you consider "what is the coolest thing I can make out of wrought iron".

But the Eiffel Tower is an art project, not something of actual utility...

Post by dyauspitr » Tue, Aug 20, 2024, 5:08 AM UTC

daveguy wrote: post #139

dyauspitr wrote: post #88

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Who cares. I literally use ChatGPT 30 times a day. It answers incredibly complex queries along with citations I can verify. Isn’t “this not good enough yet” line getting old? There nothing else that can estimate the number of cinder blocks I need to use for a project and account for the volume of concrete required for it (while taking into consideration the actual available volume available in a cinder block and sett…

Please don't take this as a glib, low effort answer, but... I am glad you're not an engineer. Taking advice from an LLM on things like outlets, ingredient safety, and construction measurements seems like a mistake.