I'm bullish on LLMs' transformative potential and bearish on centralized Chatbots.
- I'm bullish on LLMs' transformative potential and bearish on centralized Chatbots.
- Someone told me they found my position inscrutable because I loved LLMs but hate chatbots.
- But they're different things!
- LLMs are not Chatbots.
- Chatbots are one product manifestation of LLMs.
- They are bad for a few reasons:
- 1) They're a boring and limiting modality.
- 2) They put a "face" on the LLM and encourage you to think of it as a friend.
- 3) The biggest Chatbot is a massive vertical integration play to create a mega-aggregator.
- But LLMs as a raw input to other systems will be transformative for society.
- You can now take for granted that high-quality cost competitive LLMs are available to use for whatever you want to apply them to.
- That's crazy powerful!