[trey-jones]

Yes - we're in what I like to call the Socialist Phase of AI (user acquisition). We were once in this phase with Google. Eventually we'll move into the as-yet-unnamed-by-me phase that Google (and search in General, also the internet) have been in for quite some time, where they try and squeeze out all the money that they put in during the Socialist Phase.

[jaggederest]

The classic pairing is explore/exploit - where you allocate resources towards serendipity in the former, and lock down into only doing the profitable thing in the second.

[delfinom]

I like to call this the candyvan phase.

[simpsond]

Value creation phase vs extraction phase.

[cheschire]

Capitalist?

[trey-jones]

I prefer not, because technically this socialist phase is part of capitalism currently.