Are most of the AI apps in ChatGPT wrappers?

That's more or less the definition of AI app for the moment, no? If it's not using an LLM[0] for whatever magic trick it's offering then it's not really an AI app. And if it mediates input/output between the user and the LLM then it's an LLM wrapper.

Every software product is a wrapper of sorts and necessarily masks the some functionality of the ingredients it's made from in order to provide a productive interface.

[0] I know there are other kinds of AI but that's not what people mean when they say AI app now, for better or worse.

Re: Are most of the AI apps in ChatGPT wrappers?

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Post by meiraleal » Wed, Jun 12, 2024, 5:49 PM UTC

Yes. And most SaaS are AWS wrappers. Do you think this is a problem?

Re: Are most of the AI apps in ChatGPT wrappers?

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Post by gtirloni » Wed, Jun 12, 2024, 7:49 PM UTC

meiraleal wrote: post #6

Yes. And most SaaS are AWS wrappers. Do you think this is a problem?

Nice reductio ad absurdum. Clearly most SaaS are not wrappers around AWS. Unless you want to say an operating system is a wrapper around the hardware, RAID is a wrapper around disks, etc.

The difference being they add something meaningful which most AI SaaS apps don't (they have a UI that's not any better than the original chatbots and simply have a system prompt that does something -- which the user could easily enter in their own chatbot through custom instructions and whatnot).

Re: Are most of the AI apps in ChatGPT wrappers?

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Post by meiraleal » Wed, Jun 12, 2024, 11:45 PM UTC

gtirloni wrote: post #7

meiraleal wrote: post #6

Yes. And most SaaS are AWS wrappers. Do you think this is a problem?

Nice reductio ad absurdum. Clearly most SaaS are not wrappers around AWS. Unless you want to say an operating system is a wrapper around the hardware, RAID is a wrapper around disks, etc. The difference being they add something meaningful which most AI SaaS apps don't (they have a UI that's not any better than the original chatbots and simply have a system prompt that does something -- which the user could easily ent…

Not now but many of them were 10 years ago. Current AI Apps are ChatGPT wrappers because it will take time to develop things to differentiate them

Re: Are most of the AI apps in ChatGPT wrappers?

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 13, 2024, 4:39 AM UTC

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Re: Are most of the AI apps in ChatGPT wrappers?

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Post by qbxk » Fri, Jun 14, 2024, 10:41 AM UTC

mmarian wrote: post #4

Probably, but does that matter? Isn't Vercel an AWS wrapper as well?

aren't you just a mitochondria wrapper?