Now they have very long context windows, ability to upload and parse through files, custom system prompts, can work with images, remember user history across chats...
So what's the unique value adds in other products that are using chatbots?
My 'hot take' currently is that the core product of chatgpt and similar bots is so good that there's very little value to 'wrapper' apps/products. I'm a heavy tech user and all of my use cases and problems I can solve with the core chatgpt right now.
The only real limitations and problems I can think of are:
- privacy, though there seem to be modes for not using/storing your data, depending on your level of trust of the companies, - reliance on internet, I suppose one day I'd need a local chatbot with gpt4 capabilities somewhere remote, - maybe file uploads (and RAG capabilities) are limited on the core gpt4/claude sites, though I'm not sure this will remain the case for any length of time.
So yeah I'm not sure what unique value 'wrapper' products are providing, but I'd love to see examples and be proven wrong and hopefully learn something new.