Don’t Build AI Products The Way Everyone Else Is Doing It

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[navidmafi]

"don't use AI as long as possible"

nailed it. use AI as a tool for solving specific sub-problems when needed. not for the entire problem

[MrDonald]

As an AI engineer with an experience of running businesses I feel the need to comment. I think saying " you should differentiate by building a more complex solution" is not necessarily a good advice. Many times you will find people that sell very naive and simple software and printing money because they have really good distribution. You can also find an amazing piece of software without clients because of very poor distribution and go-to-market strategy. I think the best scenario is when you have differentiation in your software AND good distribution. Which is what you're doing by creating content on your youtube channel about your AI solution ;)

[johndeterman]

Given that Open AI just killed a bunch of startups and the dreams of people hoping to make a quick buck, this advice is very timely. Well said, excellent advice that really hits home.

[jimmy]

In my experience, 90% of what customers are asking for is “put a chatbot on my website”. They’d rather drop a few cents per interaction and throw the problem at OpenAI APIs, than pay a dev to setup and maintain a chain, do fine tuning, train a model etc. If it ever scales up, then the value add would be optimization. But in the case of building a product business around AI, I totally agree with you.

[tjrobertson]

Wow! Super impressed with this video. It's an ad masquerading as an educational video, but it's done so well I don't even mind. Great information!

[MagusArtStudios]

I built my AI API on top of vector Databases with zero-shot classfication to determine which AI model to use for the specific task.. You can pass label variables such as ["Greetings", "Coding task", "Search query"] . This can reduce the cost of running your AI chatbot service. Plus if you design a smaller local model that knows when it doesn't know the answer you can outsource to a different model with zero-shot classification.

[HectorDiabolucus]

As someone who has been writing software for 3 decades, I agree with your approach. You can’t just throw AI at a problem. Automation is more than just AI.

[BingyangWei]

Google's Rules of Machine Learning #1: Don’t be afraid to launch a product without machine learning.

[julo.parapente]

I love that you encourage being conservative about AI usage. I feel like way too many projects have AI just because it's trending, without considering the utility vs computational cost / determinism.

[pz]

Love your tone, speed, clarity, style of presentation and most importantly, confidence in your voice because you have done it yourself and did a great job. Kudos to you Steve !!

[vncntjms]

Hot take: Don't overkill your apps with #AI just for the sake of calling it an "AI app/company".

[yassine]

I like how his promoting his business and making valuable content with really help information at the same time.

[IanMathaiya]

This made me think in a whole new perspective, thanks for making this video.
Please make a video on how make your own LLM or AI model.

[remi-avec-un-i]

Already read the blog post this morning, found it very good ! So good that, when I saw the video on my youtube feed, I click on it to be sure to not miss any infos !
Great work 🔥

[FatherOfTheParty]

4 minutes into the video, I captured the URL and sent it to my development team and said. "Stop what you're doing, watch this. This guy knows stuff."

[HistoryIsAbsurd]

Thanks for this. Its still over my head to actually implement but definitely saving for later when im ready!

[arwildo]

I appreciate you actually revealing your business approach

[heroe]

Was having the same thoughts, was thinking about some AI projects and when searching on Google to see if it has already been done there were always plenty of results who were just basically an input form and a submit button to feed it to GPT3/4 API and get a basic response.

It's all about tge whole pipeline to get something useful and original, thanks for the real world showcase

[harishdeivanayagam]

Great content Steve. This is really an honest opinion on LLMs. Thanks for sharing.

[origarin]

Excellent video. One issue you haven't mentioned is explainability (even though it's related to debuggability). Very important and becomes nearly impossible with a big black box model.