Would you pay for an App that was a very specific AI bot?

[DeckerdSmeckerd]

For example, you could buy an AI that is an expert on the movie Dune. You could ask it any question and it would always do it's best to have a conversation about Dune and learn from what is told by the user base. It can gather statistics about what the audience thinks and catalog information on the Internet. 

Edited November 25, 2023 by DeckerdSmeckerd

[iNow]

no

[DeckerdSmeckerd]

Me either

[Sensei]

This is a science forum, not a science fiction forum. This is the kind of question you should ask in the Dune forum..

Scientists would be more interested in applications that help them in science subjects such as physics, chemistry, mathematics, computer science, etc.

However, entertainment apps can be distributed to anyone, science apps are only of interest to scientists. So the potential user base (8 billions+) is much higher for entertainment than for science. It's easier to reach them and easier to sell them if making money is the main driver of your activity on the subject.

ps. creating such AI/chatbot should be pretty easy - you just give the all books to read by it, and the all subscripts from the movies.. A weekend job, I would say..

There are six originals made by Frank (I have them all offline), as well as quite a few made by his son and third parties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(franchise)

 

[Endy0816]

No, but a more generalist bot might be worthwhile.

Will probably want specialist bots for work or other professional projects.

[StringJunky]

On 11/25/2023 at 7:46 AM, Sensei said:

This is a science forum, not a science fiction forum. This is the kind of question you should ask in the Dune forum.

 

How is it science fiction? They are working on those now. He's describing a specialized mini-ChatGPT app...is he not? The starting gun has been fired...

Edited November 26, 2023 by StringJunky

[Ghideon]

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Would you pay for an App that was a very specific AI bot?

I guess it depends on the context. My car has a voice control for navigation; to me as a user that specific function behaves like a "specialised bot"*. In this case the price of "the bot" is included in the price of the car. Would I pay for it if it was an optional app? Maybe.

 

*)I classify this as an application "AI" since there is a capability to imitate intelligent human behaviour. I have no insight in the implementation.

[Sensei]

9 hours ago, StringJunky said:

How is it science fiction?

Reread it again. Dune is a sci-fi..

9 hours ago, StringJunky said:

They are working on those now. He's describing a specialized mini-ChatGPT app...is he not? The starting gun has been fired...

So we will have recursion..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion_(computer_science)

(this can lead to stack overflow )

 

Edited November 26, 2023 by Sensei

[Endy0816]

3 hours ago, Sensei said:

Reread it again. Dune is a sci-fi..

So we will have recursion..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion_(computer_science)

(this can lead to stack overflow )

 

While the example use case involves a sci-fi series, you can obviously do it with today's technology.

Recursion is more an issue with the programming, rather than a hard limit. GPT will sometimes have to cut itself off too.

Honestly Dune is a weird choice to use as an example, considering it's themes.