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Are most of the AI apps in ChatGPT wrappers?

6 points by FStorm007 2 years ago · 11 comments


BWStearns 2 years ago

That's more or less the definition of AI app for the moment, no? If it's not using an LLM[0] for whatever magic trick it's offering then it's not really an AI app. And if it mediates input/output between the user and the LLM then it's an LLM wrapper.

Every software product is a wrapper of sorts and necessarily masks the some functionality of the ingredients it's made from in order to provide a productive interface.

[0] I know there are other kinds of AI but that's not what people mean when they say AI app now, for better or worse.

mmarian 2 years ago

Probably, but does that matter? Isn't Vercel an AWS wrapper as well?

  • qbxk 2 years ago

    aren't you just a mitochondria wrapper?

    • mmarian 2 years ago

      I'm pretty clueless about biology, so I'll assume the answer to that is a yes. Not sure what the purpose of the comment is though, it supports my argument that you can't just call something a wrapper of its components without taking into consideration the leap to make it all come together.

meiraleal 2 years ago

Yes. And most SaaS are AWS wrappers. Do you think this is a problem?

  • gtirloni 2 years ago

    Nice reductio ad absurdum. Clearly most SaaS are not wrappers around AWS. Unless you want to say an operating system is a wrapper around the hardware, RAID is a wrapper around disks, etc.

    The difference being they add something meaningful which most AI SaaS apps don't (they have a UI that's not any better than the original chatbots and simply have a system prompt that does something -- which the user could easily enter in their own chatbot through custom instructions and whatnot).

    • meiraleal 2 years ago

      Not now but many of them were 10 years ago. Current AI Apps are ChatGPT wrappers because it will take time to develop things to differentiate them

  • FStorm007OP 2 years ago

    It would be great, actually!

8BitArmour 2 years ago

Ola's krutim definitely is

ghoshbishakh 2 years ago

Yes

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