[loudmax]

I think the focus on AGI is misguided, at least in the short run. There's profit to be made in specialized intelligence, especially dull, boring stuff like understanding legal contracts or compliance auditing. These AI models have plenty of utility that can be profitably rented out, even if their understanding of the world is far short of general intelligence.

[wongarsu]

Even just replacing 10% of first-line customer service is a gigantic market opportunity.

Everyone tried the first time by adding stupid menus that you have to navigate with numbers, then they made it recognize spoken words instead of numbers, now everyone is scrambling to get those to be "intelligent" enough to take actual questions and answer the most frequently occurring ones in a manner that satisfies customers.