They’re two different tools with different purposes, so why treat one like it can replace the other?
Google’s delusional fantasy has always been you want to buy a guitar, you go on Google, their ad algorithm shows you a perfectly targeted ad for the guitar you want, and you love and trust Google so you click the ad and buy it. They think LLMs will make that actually work, they want to give you a Grima Wormtongue that can simper and manipulate until you do love and trust it, and once you’re a rotting husk it whispers the ad algorithm into your ear so you think it was your idea.
If that was the goal then maybe they should’ve worked harder so that their algo didn’t spit out cheap poorly made garbage with a million fake reviews every time I try to search anything remotely purchasable.
Every single answer in this thread just boils down to money.
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Your product might not benefit from AI but you definitely can get more VC investment dollars if you bolt an LLM onto the side of it and feature AI as central to what you’re offering. This is because VCs treat tech like fashion and don’t actually understand how it works or how it would integrate into our lives.
This was true for the nascent internet, and for blockchain even more, but truly nobody really understands how llms work so its way worse.
Allow me to add in an extract from the film “The Cube” which addresses this point
WORTH
It’s maybe hard for you to understand, but there’s no conspiracy. Nobody
is in charge. It’s a headless blunder operating under the illusion of a masterplan.
Can you grasp that? Big brother is not watching you.
QUENTIN
What kind of fucking explanation is that?
WORTH
It’s the best you�re gonna get. I looked and the only explanation I can
come to is that there is nobody up there.
QUENTIN
Somebody had to say yes to this thing.
WORTH
What thing? Only we know what it is.
QUENTIN
We have no idea, what it is.
WORTH
We know more than anybody else. I mean somebody might have known
sometime, before they got fired or voted out or sold it. But if this place ever had a
purpose, then it got miscommunicated or lost in the shuffle. This is an accident, a
forgotten propetual, public, worksproject. Do you think anybody wants to ask
questions? All they want is a clear conscience and a fat paycheck. I mean, I lead on
my desk for months. This was a great job!
QUENTIN
Why put people in it?
WORTH
Because it’s here. you have to use it or admit it’s pointless.
QUENTIN
But it is pointless!
WORTH
Quentin… That’s my point.
As much as I hate AI, you be amazed at how many times I’ve gone to a search engine typed in a question of how do I do X?
The search results when I click on the webpages may or may not be right half the time the people who designed the webpage didn’t put allthe information in so the information is either incomplete or wrong.
The AI result at the top of the page more often than not is actually correct.
New and trendy bandwagon. Aside from the reasons you excluded, fear of being left behind is my best answer to your questions
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