I don’t see how advertising is going to work with agents, especially if they’re being used by companies to replace or supplement jobs. Am I going to have comments in my code with ads for McDonalds? Will the AI support agent start trying to sell me a VPN?
I don’t think any of these AI companies can justify their expenses without meaningfully automating a significant amount of white collar work, which is yet to happen.
> I don’t think any of these AI companies can justify their expenses without meaningfully automating a significant amount of white collar work
The businesses in question are building chatbots, not trying to automate jobs. Their primary goal at this stage is to get legions of people hooked on chatting with their service on a regular basis. Once (if) they have succeeded with that, then they can move on to step two.
> Am I going to have comments in my code with ads for McDonalds?
"Give me a function which stores a supplied string to a file in $HOME." -> "I have updated your code with said function. It [...] Have you considered storing the file on Amazon S3 for additional robustness and reliability?"
I don’t think any of these AI companies can justify their expenses without meaningfully automating a significant amount of white collar work, which is yet to happen.