Possibly unrealistic, but my fear is that they will end up like Netflix more than uber.
Some will scream in horror but I wanted Netflix to be a monopoly. A single place and app and account with all the content I need.
"competition" in streaming space has been nothing but disastrous for me as a consumer. It led to greedy heterogeneous islands of content, with proliferation of crappy apps and pointless restrictions and return to cable package mentality.
Again, Possibly irrationally and ignorantly, my fear is that 5 years from now I'll need a dozen subscriptions to less good services which will hoard their source data and models and be specialized based on which content they got licenses to. I. E. There'll be ai1 with new York times and Wikipedia, and ai2 with Washington post and encyclopedia Britannica, and ai3 with I don't know fox news and RT, and ai4 with mit and Harvard business libraries, and ai5 focused on math with extra subscription to wolfram, and ai6 with rights to stack overflow and JavaScript and so on.
There are many scenarios various writers have posited where we are actually in local maxima lf ll, with data being increasingly closed and or poisoned, and possibly segregated in the near future. :-/
Just like the pirate Bay online cinema is better than every streaming service there could be pirate LLM that uses all the data, maybe it could be even trained by internet users sharing a bit of compute with some program?
I don’t think you can really compare that. The streaming service market is not elastic because you cannot easily interchange one series for another.
If other vendors LLMs become good enough it will actually be easily to interchange and then the race for the best UX and integration will be upon us (which the other commenter alluded to).
"if other llms are good enough" assumes that in principle they have same opportunities, access to same data, or content. My fear is precisely that this assumption may be taken away - I. E. That news paper publishers or encyclopedia owners or big websites (stack overflow, web Md, etc) will enter into arrangement with specific llm companies - just like Netflix Disney prime etc aren't competing on their app or price or flexibility, but on exclusive underlying content. Nobody WANTS to subscribe to Paramount+ or cbs access... But if they hold enough material hostage some people will 'have to'. I can see a future, not far off, where different llm organizations selling feature is not how good their technology is - to your and overvodys point, THAT moat is likely to even out - but what underlying training data they have legal access to.
Some will scream in horror but I wanted Netflix to be a monopoly. A single place and app and account with all the content I need.
"competition" in streaming space has been nothing but disastrous for me as a consumer. It led to greedy heterogeneous islands of content, with proliferation of crappy apps and pointless restrictions and return to cable package mentality.
Again, Possibly irrationally and ignorantly, my fear is that 5 years from now I'll need a dozen subscriptions to less good services which will hoard their source data and models and be specialized based on which content they got licenses to. I. E. There'll be ai1 with new York times and Wikipedia, and ai2 with Washington post and encyclopedia Britannica, and ai3 with I don't know fox news and RT, and ai4 with mit and Harvard business libraries, and ai5 focused on math with extra subscription to wolfram, and ai6 with rights to stack overflow and JavaScript and so on.
There are many scenarios various writers have posited where we are actually in local maxima lf ll, with data being increasingly closed and or poisoned, and possibly segregated in the near future. :-/