@carnage4life those 900M ChatGPT downloads make Microsoft a lot of $$$ though.

And it's quite early for founder-led companies to take victory laps while trying to figure out a profitable and sustainable business model.

They don't have to be good at making consumer products. They just need to be good at making money.

Consumers are a fickle bunch.

@carnage4life To be fair, Mark Z was singing a similar tune when he needed to convince the public that Meta's AI was somehow for the public good with Open Source and how amazing it would be to make the mission the vision, blah blah blah...

I guess it slaps different when it's your guy vs the other guy.

@carnage4life There is a point at which monetizing website traffic through the number of users who visit it is no longer a viable strategy.
Wikipedia is in a tough spot, since they don't charge advertisers and instead get donations to keep their content free.

If the AI search is required to link back to source content then it's a more symbiotic relationship.

Oh if only there were still regulators left

@carnage4life The whole point of research publication is to ensure your theories are validated by other research teams.
Otherwise, you risk being in a bubble of your own limits.

Perhaps a better approach is to remove barriers to application of that research?

Just sayin' .. Hidden research is not research... Just... Notes?

@carnage4life I can guarantee with 100% certainty, these assertions are simply clever sales tactics keep attention on AI companies.
They are seeing a reduced enthusiasm since AI is essentially a generic commodity at this point and they haven't recouped the capital investments yet.

It's basically similar to a Pharma company trying to sell a migraine drug today by saying that the drug will guarantee migraines won't exist in 5 years.

5 years is a long time and people have short memories.