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Meamwhile I think the law should garantee a customer can speak to someone at a company who has enough power to take action on the entire customer account. At least in France we passed a law that says that if you subscribed to a service online, you can unsubscribed online too (no idea if we're first, or last).
Naming choice feels a lil sus considering the existing mindshare on "Q" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon
from the NYTimes article: The name Q is a play on the word “question,” given the chatbot’s conversational nature, Mr. Selipsky said. It is also a play on the character Q in the James Bond novels, who makes stealthy, helpful tools, and on a powerful “Star Trek” figure, he added.
If you're building an entirely new product and can choose any name in the world - why would you choose one that had the remote potential to be misconstrued? Seems foolish, particularly in the current political climate where fervor is building over AI regulation and a huge chunk of our politicians are in the MAGA camp.
I see a lot of these data providers investing in chat style interfaces too, the main plus with aws is all the extra data a Confluence chat interface won’t have for example. Not sure how you reconcile inconsistent data from say slack and confluence. If they get it right though, this will be the top of the stack for AI for a lot of companies
Weird that I read a story about OpenAI's mysterious "Q" model, open up Hacker News, and read about Amazon's Q model. It will be interesting to see the business expertise functionality that they tout.
The [possibly bogus] recent news were about a thing called Q* ("Q star"). I think the branding is just a coincidence, where it stands for "Question".
"Amazon Q offers 40+ built-in connectors to popular enterprise applications and document repositories, including S3, Salesforce, Google Drive, Microsoft 365, ServiceNow, Gmail, Slack, Atlassian, and Zendesk" Having a direct link to S3 + existing connectors built in feels like a strong competitive moat. Interested to see how far they can expand on this
Not really; the hard part is processing the data from each of these sources, not downloading the data from the source. Sure, any company that wants to compete is going to need to raise at least $30m just to get to the same minimal baseline level of support, but that was already the case even without this announcement.
In terms of whether this product will win the market, I honestly doubt it. Figuring out how to best process the data from each source to yield good results is going to be highly subjective, and Amazon's culture makes it unlikely that it will succeed here.
(As someone with a company that offers an API to pre-process email for LLM ingestion, fwiw.)
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Only for the terminally online.
Unfortunately the votes of terminally online conspiracy theorists have the same weight as the rest of ours, which can interact with the real world. Edit: actually, I phrased this poorly in reflection. It is good that everyone gets a vote, even people I disagree with. The unfortunate thing is the influence of online weirdness on people.
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Swastika predates the nazis by a lot too but I wouldn't put one on my leather jacket. Seniority is a weak position when trying to guess what meaning people might infer from a word.
The swastika is associated with a group that waged a major war against many nations and committed genocide and other atrocities. Avoiding it, at least in most contexts, is just good sense these days. "Q" in "QAnon" is associated with a bunch of idiots believing nonsensical conspiracy theories. These aren't quite the same things. Congrats on Godwin'ing the thread, though.