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This is kinda fundamental to economics: the moment AI learns to perform some task, that task becomes less valuable.
But then aren't there just different tasks to do? VisiCalc and Excel didn't make accountants irrelevant.
That's the economists angle, yes, but that's not what I'm getting at.
You can't make a business with AI because anyone can use an LLM to do anything an LLM can do.
There are exceptions in the short term, but they may not last. For example, we're paying a hefty subscription fee for an AI service that scrapes financial data from scanned pages. It's much more accurate than traditional OCR.
Presently its better than its competitors so commands a premium price. However, I don't think it will enjoy that position for long.
This doesn't make a lot of sense. Just because everyone can use Word doesn't mean you can't make a business using it. Oh no, everyone has calculators, guess you can't have a business that uses calculators. Businesses and people in general use the best tools available for the job, which might be pencil and paper, or eventually an LLM.
You're conflating a tool with a service.
If you noticed that calculators were really good at adding up numbers, and started a business using a calculator to add up numbers for people, you won't attract any customers because people can just use their own calculators.
That does not mean businesses do not use calculators.