Virgil Dean

Are there any products left that are completely AI-free?

Are there any products left that are completely AI-free? Honestly, I'm experiencing some serious AI-fatigue lately. It's as if a product doesn't deserve to exist in today's world without an AI component. Are there still straightforward problem-solving products out there without all the unnecessary AI bells and whistles?


P.S. I'm not saying AI is bad, but there are just too many products that are 'AI for the sake of AI'

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Jake Crump

I kind of think a lot of the problem is that too many products market themselves heavily as being AI. We've kind of moved past the point of AI inherently being novel, and at this point, specifically calling out that your product has AI doesn't really make it stand out. I think it's becoming more and more important to actually market and call out the real value and unique features of the product, the selling points of it, and what it specifically does / the problems it solves over just saying that it simply has AI.


I think given how big of a technical leap AI is, it makes sense that a lot of products will have AI in it, but I just don't think it needs to be at the forefront for a lot of products in terms of messaging.

Andrew Stewart

Are there any products left that are completely AI-free? there are just too many products that are 'AI for the sake of AI'


AI is the new deep learning, which was the new machine learning, which was the new statistics or something like that ... It's often just a marketing buzzword, and the thing with marketing buzzwords is lots of people try to shove them into their product.


There are plenty of AI-free products/services. I'll list some of the ones I've used today: @YNAB (You Need A Budget) , spotwx.com, @wealthsimple, @Linear . What have you used?