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by JackOfCrows 753 days ago
It's going to turn out exactly like virtual assistants like Cortana and Siri where there's a massive rush to integrate it into everything and scoop up that VC funding (and hey, get that bag!) Because dorks think it's cool and maybe 10% of people actually use it and then 5 years later they have to rip it out of everything and it's on to the next grift.

They want to integrate it into desktop PCs? Lel. I did some training courses grad school classes and a lot of kids do literally everything on phones and tablets and maybe a chrome book. They use chatgpt to cheat and write papers because it's easy but nobody is using it for the kind of things starry eyed dorks are imagining using it for.

Nobody actually wants this except nerds and VCs trying to find the next gold rush. It's fancy spellcheck/suggestion/guessing and nobody gives a duck. I work with normies and half my team doesn't even have a modern enough smart phone to install recent apps. One guy just has a flip phone because he doesn't want to be bothered.

Remember how SV was pushing the Metaverse a couple years ago and now we all wear headsets and work in our Metaverse office using our NFT avatars with no legs? Exactly.

Silicon Valley isn't even worried about solving problems anymore except "the problem is I don't have enough money and I'd like to fix that". Nobody outside San Francisco and Austin is yearning for a fancy chatbot.