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Re:AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building ... by aprilthird2021 on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @01:16AM (#41297042)
> If your AI travel agent books vacations to the correct destination only 90% of the time, it won’t be successful.

Well, I don't agree. I think there are ways to make this successful, but you have to be honest about the limitations you're working it with and play to your strengths.

How about an AI travel agent that gets your itineraries at a discount with the caveat that you be ready for anything. Like old, cheap standby tickets where you just went wherever there was an empty seat that day.

Or how about an AI Spotify for way less money than current Spotify. It's not competing on quality, it can't. Occasionally you'll hear weird artifacts, but hey it's way cheaper.

That could work, imo

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Re:AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building ... by ikr678 on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @02:56AM (#41297488)
We've had good, free (non ai) media recommendation tools in the past and they got killed by licensing agreements.

AI is creating a post-scarcity content economy where quality is going to be the only driver of value.

If you are the rights holder of any premium human created media content you are not going to let a 'cheap' AI tool get access to recommend it out to people.

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