On: Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?

They're selling shovels and pickaxes during a gold rush.

Also, unless you have a very specific niche, creating the product is no longer an issue, finding clients who are willing to pay is. I built a small saas overnight and I got clients purely because I had one, in my family, with enough reach to bring few more. If I just built this product, even if I kept cold-calling small businesses, I would most likely not get a single real user.

> They're selling shovels and pickaxes during a gold rush.

this is a thought terminating cliche. What you are implying is that AI will just go away in the future. That won't happen.

Oil is better analogy imo. But not as catchy. Intelligence is apparently something that just falls out of math. So pumping it out of the ground and distributing it is not free but it is a commodity. Similar to oil it will take time to build out the infrastructure to utilize it.

That’s not a good analogy. Intelligence is not some fixed quantity like non renewable energy

Neither gold nor pickaxes did, but both business went back to reasonable levels and valuations.

> That won't happen.

Speaking of thought-terminating cliches...

idk what you mean, AI won't go anywhere. that's just the truth and its not a cliche. its like saying "water is wet" - no one contests it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum

Whats the fallacy for when you misunderstand my argument.

Or are you claiming that AI will go away?

Rather I'm not convinced by your claim.

You’re not convinced by my claim that AI won’t go away? In other words you aren’t convinced that AI is here to stay.

This is an extremist take. You can throw all Wikipedia fallacies you want on me