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I very much agree this is effectivity a 'honeymoon' period.

Expect the SEO collective to shift focus on AI if the search approach becomes profitable in a few years.

That said, given an "AI search" is estimated to be at least ten times [0] as expensive per query than traditional search, I hope you like ads.

For those hoping to see that cost to go down, training costs for improved models have instead been going up. [1]

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-do-googles-a...

[1] https://www.pymnts.com/artificial-intelligence-2/2024/openai...

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The kids running local LLM's then have the right idea. They can stop with the last, good dataset before Sellama (and AdGPT) poisoned the well.

Pure speculation on my part, but to play along, I suspect the models you mentioned will be a cheaper or free subscription option.

And again speculating, but given Apple's new emphasis on privacy, it might rhyme quite well to (1) make that into apple intelligence or even (2) make it fully local and, as a matter of principle, not dependent on external infrastructure.

> I very much agree this is effectivity a 'honeymoon' period.

At this point I'd be much more interested to hear which "unicorn" tech company did not have such a honeymoon period which it later turned away from. This should really be the default, expected behaviour at this point.

> At this point I'd be much more interested to hear which "unicorn" tech company did not have such a honeymoon period which it later turned away from

Doctolib in France (and Italy, Germany, Netherlands) is one such example. Founded in 2013 so decent life, still as good as in the beginning for both consumers (people booking healthcare appointments) and the customers (doctors paying to use it for their appointment management). And they're only getting better, with e.g. an AI assistant in beta to take notes during appointments.

Only criticism is that they've made it increasingly hard to book a doctor appointment for people who don't have a carte vital.

How so? Is a social security number a prerequisite for booking appointments?

Expect ads to be interspersed with ChatGPT replies in the near future. It's another place to advertise.

Must go look for a patent on it, there will be one. (lol)

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