Simon Willison Quotes Nilay Patel on AI Products and Their Costs
Quoting Nilay Patel
- Who
- Nilay Patel
- What
- argued AI products must improve to justify their costs
- When
- Quote
The AI industry will not get out of it until they make better products .
What happened
Simon Willison quotes Nilay Patel saying AI products are not good enough to justify their costs and that agents may not yet be used as anyone wants. Patel also points to data center noise, hacked blood storage refrigerators in Europe, and what he calls “crypto-corruption,” arguing that the industry needs to make products that visibly improve people’s lives.
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Nilay Patel argued that AI products are not yet good enough to justify their costs, and said the industry needs to make products that visibly improve people’s lives. Simon Willison quoted Patel saying that agents may not yet be used as anyone wants. Patel also pointed to data center noise, hacked blood storage refrigerators in Europe, and what he called “crypto-corruption” as concerns facing the industry.
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