The difference is previous version of alexa wasn't good enough to pay for it. Now it is good enough that millions of users are paying $10-100 for these services.

Once AI improves its cost/error ratio enough the systems you are suggesting for humans will work here also. Maybe Claude/OpenAI will be pair programming and Gemini reviewing the code.

> Once AI improves

That's exactly the problematic mentality. Putting everything in a black box and then saying "problem solved; oh it didn't work? well maybe in the future when we have more training data!"

We're suffering from black-box disease and it's an epidemic.

The training data: Entirety of internet and every single book we could put our hands on "Surely we can just somehow give it more and it will be better!"

Also once people stop cargo-culting $trendy_dev_pattern it'll get less impactful.

Every time something new the same thing happen, people start exploring by putting it absolutely everywhere, no matter what makes sense. Add in huge amount of cash VCs don't know what to spend it on, and you end up with solutions galore but none of them solving any real problems.

Microservices is a good example of previous $trendy_dev_pattern that is now cooling down, and people are starting to at least ask the question "Do we need microservices here actually?" before design and implementation, something that has been lacking since it became a trendy thing. I'm sure the same will happen with LLMs eventually.

For that to work the error rate would have to be very low. Potentially lower than is fundamentally possible with the architecture.

And you’d have to assume that the errors LLMs make are random and independent.

As I get older I'm realizing a lot of things in this world don't get better. Some do, to be fair, but some don't.

not work will also mean it will siphon all the data and then leak it to hackers from around the world.

It's easy just use made up definitions for "helped", "fraudulent" and "terminated".

And also use made up numbers, just to be safe.

If fixing, Why now? Why this much?

Before internet on phone, every communication was in plain text, so no need to have a backdoor in phone if you can tap directly into AT&T or Vodafone.

What we need is an open source industry standard stdlib equiv developed and maintained by MS, GOOG and some open source players.

All libraries should strive to have dependency only on it.

Looking around. I don't know what feels worse; a drug that induced compliance or world is in general this stupid.

Considering it is done for many years all over the world no reason that particular should be on anyone's radar.

No, the concept - not the “China” detail.

It’s being discussed here (and elsewhere) like the US company talking about it is broaching a new concept.

Isnt UN most bureaucratic organization possible. Would be funny to see all nations discussing/voting on features in next version.