[est31]

There is value created, but the argument was that it is the big ones with existing customer relationships that are going to benefit, not the 100th startup that offers an AI assistant to schedule appointments via voice commands. I think all of that second group of thin GPT wrappers will be eaten by the entities developing and running the foundational models like OpenAI.

In general, AI is data hungry and college kids in their dorm room will always be at a disadvantage in that regard compared to large companies (many of which locked down scraping on their properties, even if "their" content is mainly generated by users, i.e. non-employees).

[JeremyNT]

> In general, AI is data hungry and college kids in their dorm room will always be at a disadvantage in that regard compared to large companies (many of which locked down scraping on their properties, even if "their" content is mainly generated by users, i.e. non-employees).

It's a two-way street too. The big players have more data to start with and they're already the "place" that you go to add more data.

Google's ML/AI stuff (the behind the scenes stuff, not the consumer facing chatbot type stuff) in gmail/calendar/etc is already useful because of their vertical integration. They "see" everything and can add new records in any part of their productivity suite, then make correlations / recommendations across the entirety of their offerings in a way that ChatGPT wrappers outside of their walled garden will never be able to replicate.

Now with OpenAI, MS has the same opportunity. Issues on github? Code? Emails? Teams conversations? Calendar appointments? Bing search history? It's all just part of the same bundle to them and it's all read/write.