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How much would you pay for one AI killer app?
Hedge fund chief Sam Leffel also weighed in. I met Sam while researching the predictive power of ChatGPT. He uses its cutting-edge AI tools constantly, both at work and in his personal life.
He also tried Google's Gemini earlier this year and fell in love with a Gmail feature called Polish that uses AI to improve emails that contain at least 12 words. Just press Alt+H on a Windows PC or Option+H on a Mac, and suddenly Gemini is working. (This is Polish, that is, the process of shining, not the language Polish).
Sam said this is Gemini's most useful feature. “It takes a fraction of the time to write an email,” he said. “I still make small edits, but it’s much faster and better.”
Here's the problem. He turned off his Gemini paid subscription after a while. This is anecdotal for him because it wasn't as good as ChatGPT. Then the Polish language feature in Gmail suddenly disappeared. Not acceptable!
“That was surprising,” Sam said. “So now I'm paying Google a certain amount of money every month just to give me this button to polish all my emails. That's the value of this.”
Gemini's first paid tier is $20 per month. That's a lot for one feature.
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