| ▲ | javier_e06 4 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
They are not trying to sell adds. They are trying to sell themselves as a monthly service. That is what I think when they are trying to convince me to go there to think. I rather go think at Wikipedia. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | conductr 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Idk, brainstorming and ideating is my main use case for AI I use it as codegen too but I easily have 20x more brainstorming conversations than code projects Most non-tech people I talk to are finding value with it with traditional things. The main one I've seen flourish is travel planning. Like, booking became super easy but full itinerary planning for a trip (hotels, restaurants, day trips/activities, etc) has been largely a manual thing that I see a lot of non-tech people using llms for. It's very good for open ended plans too, which the travel sites have been horrible at. For instance, "I want to plan a trip to somewhere warm and beachy I don't care about the dates or exactly where" maybe I care about the budget up front but most things I'm flexible on - those kinds of things work well as a conversation. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | derektank 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Wikipedia is, of course very useful, but what it’s not good at is surfacing information I am unfamiliar with. Part of this problem is that Wikipedia editors are more similar to me, and more interested in similar things to me, than the average person writing text that appears online. Part of the problem is that the design of Wikipedia does not make it easy to stumble upon unexpected information; most links are to adjacent topics given they have to be relevant to the current article. But regardless, I’m much more likely to come across a novel concept when chatting with Claude, compared to browsing Wikipedia. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | nerdsniper 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
It’s so hard to succeed without selling ads. There’s an exponential growth aspect to these endeavors and ads add a lot of revenue, which investors like, so those who don’t can find that the lost revenue “multiplies” due to lower outside investment, lower stock price growth, etc. I wish the financial aspects were different, because Anthropic is absolutely correct about ads being antithetical to a good user experience. | |||||||||||||||||
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