The very first LLM-based product, ChatGPT, was just1 the ability to talk with the model itself: in other words, a pure chatbot. This is still the most popular LLM product by a large margin. In fact, given the amount of money that’s been invested in the industry, it’s shocking how many “new AI products” are just chatbots. As far as I can tell, there are only three types of AI product that currently work. Chatbots For the first couple of years of the AI boom, all LLM products were chatbots. They w...