AI is the current thing. While there are still some core questions about it up in the air, the industry is swiftly navigating itself to leverage this platform shift.
This swiftness is a particular trait of the Valley. People went all-in on almost everything since the web: mobile, Cloud, SaaS, crypto, and now AI. It's both incredible and terrifying. Of course it's also ironic, given "the current thing."
Aside: "AI" is a stand-in for a bunch of technologies. In 2024, it stands for Large Language Models (LLMs). At its core, these are RNNs but "trained" on incredibly large data sets. Think, a good majority of the words on the Internet.
Chatbots are the primary ways in which users interact with LLMs today. Yet, all of the current LLM developers - OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Mistral all monetize their LLMs primarily via API access. They all differ whom they charge API money for and how much they charge for what. This has spurred a race to build interfaces to the LLM.
I love interfaces. And I personally believe that the chat bot and the text box will not win out in the end. I am not the only one[12.
These are things that most of the tech world has already learned: Google - famous for its simple text box - learned that English is about the only language that's easy to type text in; Google search has a very browsey interface for mobile in the emerging economies; Whatsapp's audio messages are incredibly popular in Middle East and Northern Africa and even in some European countries compared to text messaging.
Aside: Did you know that horizontal carousels perform significantly worse in mobile first areas of the world compared to desktop first areas of the world?
As someone that loves interfaces, I started collating a list of various attempts at building interfaces to LLMs. My goal is to try and keep this list updated to the best of my knowledge. If you know of something that I missed and believe it should be included, leave a comment or send me a note: gurupanguji@gurupanguji.com
Most people know of LLMs via chatbots since ChatGPT's introduction.
Yet, most people likely encounter them either via
As far as I know, text to video generation does not have specific applications .. yet. Here are the models that are picking up steam in the world.