Yes, except for the fact that any non-trivial saas does non-trivial stuff that an agent will be able to call (as the 'secretary') while the user still has to pay the subscription to use.

I don't think history opines favorably on companies that lose the last-mile connection with their customers.

For purposes of this thread, if chat AI becomes the primary business interface, then every service behind that becomes much easier to replace.

Yes, but now it's easier for other SaaS to compete on that, because they don't get to bundle individual features under common webshit UI and restrict users to whatever flows the vendor supports. There will be pressure to provide more focused features, because their combining and UI chrome will be done by, or on the other side of, the AI agent.

Will the SaaS also use LLMs? If so it opens the questions, why not and do we really need, as the article points out.

That's the brilliance of AI - it doesn't matter if the product actually works or not. As long as it looks like it works and flatters the user enough, you get paid.

And if you build an AI interface to your product, you can make it not work in subtly the right ways that direct more money towards you. You can take advertising money to make the AI recommend certain products. You can make it give completely wrong answers to your competitors.

Yet another homepage that doesn't tell me what it is. Something something gaming. Is it a lib, piece of hardware..? Too bored to find out after scrolling down. Oh wait, they're addicted to deadlocks. Great.

I said months ago you'd be nuts to let these things loose on your machine. Quelle surprise.

Soulless shit?

It is exactly this.

Suno music is the modern equivalent of sample packs that are like Lego blocks, to allow people to quickly throw together cliches.

It can pass for OK music and good musicians sometimes use stuff like that, too.

But it's much closer to these soulless "London Authentic Jungle" loop sample packs or to "Dance eJay" than to a musical instrument.

I also feel it's not very similar to generative electronic music, which is about control and experimentation in a very different way (generating cliches with generative synths is hard, apart from some ambient drones or meditative arpeggios).

Suno and similar tools are designed to generate cliches from... text.

It doesn't matter that it incorporates AI and does stuff that was thought impossible a couple of years ago.

It's still a pastiche of cliches and not a musical instrument.

And the comic is nice!

Others mentioned sampling and synthesizers here, and I can't think of a comparison that I'd consider more misplaced.

Good sampling is really creative.

And bad sampling is the same as a bland, commercial cover version of a song. Many people don't bother to differentiate, but sampling and cover versions are very different things, and it's rare for both to appear together in one good song.

Maybe you could tell all her fans how stupid they are and shouldn't enjoy her music.

Why not save them from themselves with some of your approved recommendations?

With pleasure!

I thought the same thing.

As for Musk... tbh I think as the vast majority of us want things from other people we temper our behaviour.

But when you have enough fame and money to do what you want the filters can come off and we can be the selfish nasty people we really are. And some people obviously like to play on that too to get air time or just prove a point.

Yeah it seems like rich people lose some of the feedback from society that helps keep people relatively "normal" - you can see it in the names of their children for example (not just Musk).

I've said it before: smoke DMT, take mushrooms, whatever. You'll know a computer program is not conscious because we aren't just prediction machines.

Unless you obviously want to benefit by eg retiring/ moving there.