AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products

Re:AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building ... by slidehero on Monday August 19, 2024 @08:02PM (#41295563)

structured outputs help, paired with regular old systems design I think you can get pretty far. it really depends what you're building though.

>If your AI travel agent books vacations to the correct destination only 90% of the time

that would be using the wrong tool for the job. an AI travel agent would be very useful for making suggestions, either for destinations or giving a list of suggested flights, hotels etc, and then hand off to your standard systems to complete the transaction.

there are also a lot of systems that tolerate "faults" just fine such as image/video/audio gen

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Re:AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building ... by hellovai on Monday August 19, 2024 @08:15PM (#41295622)

i 100% percent agree. people get so caught up on trying to do everything 90% right with AI, but they forget there's a reason most websites offer at least 2 9's of uptime.

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Re:AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building ... by hnlmorg on Monday August 19, 2024 @09:01PM (#41295851)

I’m not really sure what stance is here because you say you agree with the GP but then throw some figures that clearly disagree with the authors point (99% uptime is vastly greater than 90% accuracy).

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Re:AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building ... by chasd00 on Monday August 19, 2024 @08:25PM (#41295667)

> that would be using the wrong tool for the job. an AI travel agent would be very useful for making suggestions

But that’s a recommendation engine and we have that already all over the place.

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Re:AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building ... by wruza on Monday August 19, 2024 @09:08PM (#41295898)

We have lists with shallowly gamed results all over the place, which work in owners/bots favor, not yours. You can’t expect something not running on your device (or on a gpu rented from a third party) to work in your interest.

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Re:AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building ... by Terr_ on Monday August 19, 2024 @09:01PM (#41295852)

And hopefully a real recommendation engine won't be weirdly biased towards different answers depending on the exact phrasing, tone, and idiom of the request.

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Re:AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building ... by null0pointer on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @01:20AM (#41297056)

Yeah how am I supposed to raise millions of dollars without a working product by selling yesterday’s tech??

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