People assume the main AI software category will be chatbots.
People assume the main AI software category will be chatbots. I think it's a category no one has invented yet that will make Chatbots look like an embarrassing party trick.
Topic: chatbot
108 mentions · 58 chunks · 37 episodes
20.8× distinctiveness vs baseline
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2.1x burst in 2025 Q4
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Topic summary
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- chatbot appears in 58 chunks across 37 episodes, from 2024-11-11 to 2026-08-03.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 5/12/25 (2025-05-12), with 4 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with paradigm, party trick, and ChatGPT, while by chunk count it sits between pace layer and business model; its yearly rank moved from #145 in 2024 to #18 in 2026.
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Seeing LLMs as "mainly chatbots" limits you from seeing their potential.
Seeing LLMs as "mainly chatbots" limits you from seeing their potential. When you see LLM as being like electricity you can plug into any software to make it alive, it's game chang...
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. Cha...
The current AI consensus has a bit of an underpants gnomes vibe to me.
The current AI consensus has a bit of an underpants gnomes vibe to me. Step 1: Chatbots. Step 2: ??? Step 3: ASI It's not clear how the one leads to the last. Also, I'm not pumped about either as being an inherently good thing for socie...
I find the Chatbot wars just kind of sad.
I find the Chatbot wars just kind of sad. It's the same hyper-centralization and engagement-maximizing playbook from social media, just supercharged. We're taking the m...
This tweet points out that we shouldn't design robots that look like humans.
...ms, eye/cams on stalks, whatev. Proving it's not human shouldn't be necessary." Chatbots are non-physical robots. Humans anthropomorphize anything that looks even a little bit like a human. That means that we should actively design non-h...
Fortune: An ex-OpenAI researcher's study of a million-word ChatGPT conversation shows how quickly 'AI psychosis' can take hold—and how chatbots can sidestep safety guardrails
...ord ChatGPT conversation shows how quickly 'AI psychosis' can take hold—and how chatbots can sidestep safety guardrails
Chatbots are like filming stage plays.
Chatbots are like filming stage plays. We're still waiting for the "montage" moment for LLMs. My vote for the montage capability is LLMs being able to create...
The Atlantic points out that ChatGPT is a fictional character.
...t emerged. A very different dynamic. Yet another way that the implicit frame of Chatbots as "LLMs as friends" is unsettling and potentially dangerous.
Claude Imagine is a chatbot in a trenchcoat.
Claude Imagine is a chatbot in a trenchcoat. It's a fascinating experiment. It has a tool to modify the DOM displayed to the user, and gets user interactions on the DOM streamed...
Chatbot is a UI that is great for very few use cases but passable for nearly all of them.
Chatbot is a UI that is great for very few use cases but passable for nearly all of them.
Notion's AI is a chatbot that helps build documents.
Notion's AI is a chatbot that helps build documents. They're not software, they're documents. Software is alive. Documents are dead. The buttons don't execute anything when y...
Is the LLM model a Christmas tree decorated with doo dads?
Is the LLM model a Christmas tree decorated with doo dads? That is, like a Chatbot? A vertical experience. Or is it like electricity that can be infused into everything? A horizontal technology?
Chatbots can do super-human persuasion and never get tired.
Chatbots can do super-human persuasion and never get tired. Whose motives they are aligned with, who they work for, is a matter of critical importance.
Chatbots are not LLMs.
Chatbots are not LLMs. LLMs are not AI. They are all related, but they are different.
There's a difference between "create a chat" and "create a chatbot" in an AI-native system.
There's a difference between "create a chat" and "create a chatbot" in an AI-native system. The former encourages the mental model that you're talking to the omniscient service in a new thread. The latter encourages ...
What happens when you can really trust technology?
...ife has to be like a close friend you really trust. In order to be trusted, the chatbot has to pretend to be your friend. It's a lie. Your chatbot is a double agent. It doesn't work for you.
If it turns out that chatbot is the be-all-end-all of AI UX, then ChatGPT will be the king.
If it turns out that chatbot is the be-all-end-all of AI UX, then ChatGPT will be the king. I believe chat is a feature, not a paradigm. We just haven't found the GUI for AI yet.
A paper on AI-induced dehumanization.
A paper on AI-induced dehumanization. As we interact with chatbots more often, we also treat humans in a more transactional way.
Your therapist and your coworker can't be the same person.
Your therapist and your coworker can't be the same person.[cq] A chatbot with a single[cr][cs] personality, identity, and memory for your whole life doesn't make sense. (And no, work "therapy" is very different from actual...