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Re: We're Joining OpenAI

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Post by seabombs »

bobbiechen wrote: post #34
dfsegoat wrote: post #19

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> Expect to see a lot of ads 2 years from now I think I am just slow today - but could you please elaborate?

I wrote about this idea here: https://digitalseams.com/blog/the-ai-lifestyle-subsidy-is-go... Quick summary, I believe consumer AI experiences will feature ads because the profit opportunity is too large and company valuations depend on it. The hiring of Fidji Simo (ads at Facebook) at OpenAI + and just this week, Vijaye Raji/Statsig also point that way.

Insightful article, thanks for writing/sharing!

Re: We're Joining OpenAI

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Post by 999900000999 »

CyberMacGyver wrote: post #11

At this rate it’s better to start a company and get aquihired vs applying and getting hired. Seems like OpenAI speed ran through the Facebook phase and are out of ideas

From what I've seen you still need to be well connected.

I have at least one more idea in me and invest my own money to make it happen, but I don't think I'll have a 2 billion dollar exit.

Re: We're Joining OpenAI

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Post by Larrikin »

rhubarbtree wrote: post #48
bobbiechen wrote: post #34

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I wrote about this idea here: https://digitalseams.com/blog/the-ai-lifestyle-subsidy-is-go... Quick summary, I believe consumer AI experiences will feature ads because the profit opportunity is too large and company valuations depend on it. The hiring of Fidji Simo (ads at Facebook) at OpenAI + and just this week, Vijaye Raji/Statsig also point that way.

We’re in a golden period where AI results are ad-free. One thing I’ve been doing is querying and storing results. For example, “what are the best books on X topic” for every topic I can possibly think that I may want to read about in the future. I’ve found the results to be amazing if you give a sufficiently detailed prompt. I have enough reading to see me through to exit.

I've already started getting results infiltrated by SEO but for AI. Deep research did return seemingly a top book when I was looking into Ansible. I independently verified it with my own searching in a few different places.

But the other recommendations seemed like crap and when I followed the sources they seemed like AI generated garbage for AI that I couldn't find doing my normal searching.

Re: We're Joining OpenAI

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Post by vessenes »

kridsdale3 wrote: post #15
CyberMacGyver wrote: post #11

At this rate it’s better to start a company and get aquihired vs applying and getting hired. Seems like OpenAI speed ran through the Facebook phase and are out of ideas

Au contraire, based on their recent hires, they're just beginning their Facebook phase. Expect to see a lot of ads 2 years from now, and expect to see a LOT of money being made by the company a year after that. If they can maintain runway until then.

oAI rev exceeds $1b per month right now.

Re: We're Joining OpenAI

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Post by hobofan »

_mu wrote: post #84
sumedh wrote: post #54

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> Alex is heavily optimized for xcode. Is there a reason why the Claude cannot do the same thing?

It's not that Claude can't but iOS / Apple development is such a bear and beast. You could really build a whole model just to solve for that ecosystem. There are huge issues in the Apple ecosystem with documentation and so much tribal knowledge. In many cases it's hard to know what is the right thing to do, and there is keeping up with all of Apple's required changes. So Claude could do it, it just seems like they're…

I don't think that makes it as special as you think it does.

> There are huge issues in the Apple ecosystem with documentation and so much tribal knowledge.

I struggle to come up with an ecosystem where that doesn't apply. React, Angular, .NET, .... Though some of them probably even suffer from overdocumentation, e.g. React with the same beginner level tutorials / open source code regurgitating bad patterns, and you then have the challenge of separating the wheat from the chaff.

The question is really whether maintaining an ecosystem-specific model would be able outperform a better generalized coding model, and even further whether the marginal improvements would justify the additional maintenance process/cost.

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Post by the_other »

dataexec wrote: post #76
HSO wrote: post #52

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By the time this „golden“ ad free time is over in 1-2 years you should be able to run your own custom model locally

I hope so but we could also be staying in an eternal state of FOMO as the proprietary models keep getting marginally (or a lot) better.

How are they better if they spam the user with ads?
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