Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by scared_together 17 days ago
> I think part of the answer is that AI chat doesn't need to be general-purpose. It turned out that people really liked using a chat UI that seems to be general purpose, but you don't need to make answering any question a user asks your business.

I was under the impression that the lack of specialization is an aspect of the models themselves, not merely the UI or harnesses.

For example, the recent OpenAI success in a mathematics proof was accomplished with a general purpose model [0].

> The proof came from a new general-purpose reasoning model, rather than from a system trained specifically for mathematics, scaffolded to search through proof strategies, or targeted at the unit distance problem in particular.

Once the model is trained on general purpose data, specialization is just another kind of guardrail, as vulnerable to “jailbreaking” or prompt injection as any other content-based restriction.

[0] https://openai.com/index/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-c...