[its_down_again]

Curious—what useful things are you looking to work on right now? I'd love to learn more and help out.

In my opinion, this AI development stalemate is more layered. Big companies set such broad targets in a race to catch up with OpenAI that they lose focus on real use cases. So the loudest voices, those good at navigating internal politics, end up in a good spot to push their own ambition over actual customer needs or technical practicality. They set goals that sound just a bit more exciting than their peers, which pulls resources their way. But the focus shifts to chasing KPI's rather than drilling into real problems. Even when they know going smaller is smarter, knowing and doing are two different things.

It’s still a great time for small AI startups. My favorite kind is a team that quickly learn a business’s needs, and iterate toward the right interaction points to help. I think just staying focused on solving a lot of small related problems very fast, you can create something that feels like a real solution.

[drumdance]

If I were Google, I would offer small businesses built-in chatbots for their Maps listings.

[rsynnott]

If I were a small business, I would not be excited about having a magic robot 'hallucinate' things about my business. Like, this is the company that brought you glue on pizza.