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Interesting notion! What scenarios do you see GenAI being as fundamental a need as a db? Recommendations, definitely, but what besides?

Recommendations, relational search, autocomplete, will become table stakes. More users will want chat interfaces. AI features are an easy 'pro' tier upsell to any app.

We implemented these on FT.com, so will be fascinating to look into the engagement metrics. Will share what I can 👍

I agree about most of that, but not chat. Chat is a great stopgap for developers/product teams who haven't figured out the right happy path yet, and want to let their users find it. But once you've found it, UI ("book now" button) beats AI (typing "b-o-o-k-n-o-w") every time.

I've seen a lot of value in it from a Big Data perspective, but outside of that LLMs and other AI services are almost the entire product, not just tacked on. I'm curious why you believe people want "thing I can already use", but via a chat interface (and how that improves the user experience)?

I don't - GenAI is useful for MUCH more than chat interfaces. Improving search, recommendations, summarizing large datasets and QA-ing important data fields are the obvious ones for me.

What are some good resources on that you've come across?

Currently scouting around for them, will report back.