alt Hacker News"previous killer apps" - exactly. That's the point. Everyone is anchored in AI as being the next desktop app. It's not.
We're only using 1% of what these models will ultimately do when they're running 24/7 as utilities serving new economic models.
There just isn't enough compute right now to realize the larger monetization strategies.
On top of that, the APIs/Tools/Function Calls into the real world don't exist yet. But consumer products are going to start eventually exposing functionality to these LLMs. By that time, I wonder if we'll all have an edge-inference box sitting in every one of our houses that we buy from a consumer products company like Apple or from Amazon, or directly from OpenAI or Anthropic. These little brains will be the low latency central nervous system of a lot of things in our homes, and gateways to the larger models in the cloud. Or at least that's how I imagine it sorting out in the future.