This is like when VCs were funding all kinds of ride share, bike share, food delivery, cannabis delivery, and burning money so everyone gets subsidized stuff while the market figures out wtf is going on.
I love it. More goodies for us
I love it. More goodies for us
LLMs are capital intensive. They’re a natural fit for financing.
The ones without money will usually lose because they get less opportunity to get in front of eyeballs. Occasionally they manage it anyway, because despite the myth that the VCs love to tell, they aren't really great at finding and promulgating the best tech.
I’m reminded of slime molds solving mazes [1]. In essence, VC allows entrepreneurs to explore the solution space aggressively. Once solutions are found, resources are trimmed.
[1] https://www.mbl.edu/news/how-can-slime-mold-solve-maze-physi...
Except for all the others.
Plenty of entrepreneurship is low to moderate risk, bootstrappable and/or unscalable. That describes where VC is a raw deal. It also does not describe AI.
Getting lucky twice is a row is really really lucky. Getting lucky three times in a row is not more likely because they were lucky two times in a row
Very few other large tech companies have deep technical competence at CEO level leadership
Tech companies purchased television away from legacy media companies and added (1) unskippable ads, (2) surveillance, (3) censorship and revocation of media you don't physically own, and now they're testing (4) ads while shows are paused.
There's no excuse for getting fooled again.
They destroyed the Taxi industry, I used to be able to just walk out to the taxi rank and get in the first taxi, but not anymore. Now I have to organize it on an app or with a phone call to a robot, then wait for the car to arrive, and finally I have to find the car among all the others that other people called.
Food delivery used to be done by the restaurants own delivery staff, it was fast, reliable and often free if ordering for 2+ people. Now it always costs extra, and there are even more fees if I want the food while it's still hot. Zero care is taken with the delivery, food/drinks are not kept upright and can be a total mess on arrival. Sometimes it's escaped the container and is just in the plastic bag. I have ended up preferring to go pickup food myself over getting it delivered, even when I have a migraine, it's just gone to shit.
These rideshare and delivery companies are disgusting and terrible.
Getting a taxi was awful before ride-sharing apps. You'd have to walk to a taxi stop, or wait on the side of the road and hope you could hail one. Once the ride-sharing apps came in, suddenly getting a ride became a lot simpler. Our taxi companies are still alive, though they have their own apps now -- something that wouldn't have happened without competition -- and they also work together with the ride-hailing companies as a provider. You could still hail taxis or get them from stops too, though that isn't recommended given that they might try to run the meter by taking a longer route.
For food delivery, before the apps, most places didn't deliver food. Nowadays, more places deliver. Even if a place already had their own delivery drivers, they didn't get rid of them. We get a choice, to use the app or to use the restaurant's own delivery. Usually the app is better for smaller meals since it has a lower minimum order amount, but the restaurant provides faster delivery for bigger orders.
I assume you are talking about airports. Guess what, they still exist in many places. And on the other hand, for US, other than a few big cities, the "normal" taxi experience is that you call a number and maybe a taxi shows up in half an hour. With Uber, that becomes 10 minutes or less, with live map updates. Give me that and I'll be happy to forget about Uber.
There used to be several taxi ranks on the streets with restaurants/bars/nightclubs, now there are none.
The airport is the only place left that still has a taxi rank, and it doesn't even have taxies all the time anymore.
I can now summon a cab from the comfort of the phone I'm holding, and know that they'll accept my credit card. I know the price before I get in and I know the route they should take. I'm not going to get taken for an unnecessary scenic tourist surcharge detour.
people don't like feeling they got cheated, and pre-uber, taxis did that all the time.
In every city I have lived, that is a good thing, despite all the bad things ridesharing startups may have done.
Say what you want about the morals associated to said offerings, but it sounds very interesting for companies that may want to use a plagiarizing machine for copying GPL code while covering their asses in some way (at least in terms of cost).
Leaves you in a worse position than you started with.
Monetizing all of this is frankly...not my problem.