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So the only AI products that work is a chat bot you can talk to, or a chat bot that can perform tasks for you. Next thing you'll tell me is that the only businesses that work are ones where you can ask somebody to do something for you in exchange for money.

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Realistically there are only four types of businesses writ large: tourism, food service, railroads, and sales. People building AI-based products should focus on those verticals.

Not shown: any activity involved in production, science, or healthcare just off the top of my head

Really only two kinds:

- Energy generation and

- Expending energy to convince the folks generating energy to give you money for activating their neurons (food service, entertainment, tourism, transportation, sales).

Any other fun ways to compartmentalize an economy?

Games? One of the biggest industries, I mean verticals, in the world?

It’s a little counterintuitive, but games is under railroads.

If its counter intuitive then the classification system is bogas

lol. would love an episode on how Micheal and Dwight responds to Jims Ai slop.

The only GUI products that work are GUIs that you can interface with, or that perform tasks for you

Maybe the real value of AI, particularly LLMs, is in the interface it provides for other things, and not in the AI itself

What if AI isn't the _thing_? What if it's the thing that gets us _to_ the thing?

> Next thing you'll tell me is that the only businesses that work are ones where you can ask somebody to do something for you in exchange for money.

What other type of business is there?

That is the joke.

The best kind of businesses are the ones I don’t have to ask; they’ve already built a better product than what I would have asked for. That’s kinda the point the OP is making about chat vs a [good] dedicated interface.

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