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I don't know if the printer analogy is a good one but I'm down with what you're saying. The rise of GUI in the early days really did push printing in extreme ways
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I pay for Gemini and I haven’t used it in months. I don’t see any real case uses for me as an engineer. It just produces trash I have to fix and could have avoided if I did it myself in the beginning.
It's good at making up realistic looking fake data for testing and mock-ups, instead of the usual Person A in Town B.
Small scripts also work out as long as they're small enough to print on a piece of paper.
Writing some sales fluff in a document also works reasonably well.
But those are just niche applications. For something serious it's not really usable so far.
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You werent around during the iphones launch or the beginnings of the internet. Also yes printers did the same thing with ink jets and how everyone needed to print out their digital pictures.
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If AI was something everyone wanted or needed, it wouldn’t be constantly shoved your face by every product
Counter point: Yes it absolutely would be. There would still be competition between models and products and a need for brand recognition. If you had a product with a feature someone "wanted or needed" you wouldn't advertise that??? AI aside this is just silly
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You shoved it in my face now
Not sure where you're going with that analogy. The vast majority of text processors do have a button that lets you print the document.
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AI companies believe the market will give the best rewards for a winner-take-all strategy.
They believe now is the time to accumulate customers.
Their future financing rounds very likely depend on being able to show growth.
Entrepreneurs, CEOs, investors all know it's not everything it's cracked up to be (yet). They hope another few billion in cash will get it there. And hope you don't notice until they already won the market.
It'd be the opposite you wouldn't know about it