[w10-1]

> the market is oversaturated by apps that are nothing more than a skin over ChatGPT

OpenAI et al expressly don't care about small applications, but will do deals e.g., with Apple. So aside from humanity-wide applications, AI commercialization depends entirely on all these skins.

It's often a harder problem to get people used to new technology than to build it, particularly since it's hard to keep a customer you trained without some lock-in that is off-putting to new customers.

Most may fail; but a few fortunes will be made from skinning AI, and customers will be better for it.

[Scandiravian]

I go into more depth in the sibling comment, but I am not that optimistic about the prospect of these start-ups, given that ChatGPT is currently heavily subsidised by Microsoft

When that cost eventually has to be recouped I think the pricing will make it unsustainable for use in consumer products

There's definitely some people who'll become rich from it, but I think it's more likely going to be from acquisitions by a large corporation than from direct consumer sales