People keep comparing AI to the likes of NFTs, the blockchain, and 3D printers. All of those were over-promised niche products but AI has already proven its worth.
They were all about what they could do, but AI is already doing it.
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I absolutely do not believe that AI has proven itself to be worth hundreds of billions of dollars that has been poured into it
"AI" / LLMs ARE over-promised, over-funded product that has absolutely not proven it's worth the energy and investment being poured in it.
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I very sadly don't see it going anywhere because of how much money has been invested by big tech corporations such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft.
Reason they're willing to put so much money into these corporations is because they're being built on their cloud infrastructure, which the different AI companies pay for. So either way, they end up getting more money and becoming more influential, even if the AI hype eventually dies out.
AI is both overhyped crap and a revolution.
If anything survives it will be the deepening of the attitude that copying or imitating anything is "stealing".
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Don't forget "THE CLOUD" and "IoT"
The cloud was the dumbest hype because it changed nothing. Network services were now named cloud services, that was it.
We also got:
- cyber: the realisation that the internet exists but 20 years too late
- big data: companies snorkeling your data for targeted advertising and government surveillance
- blockchain: safe ways to pay your dealer and investment scams
- VR: the weirdest sort of corporate meetings and some cool game experiments
IOT seems kinda ok in that regard. Connect your microcontrollers to the internet to allow some extra coordination.
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VR and AR will get a second run once the UX is improved and power to run it becomes small and cheap enough. Quantum computing is around the corner.
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Guesses at next tech bro stuff (some already in the wild) unfortunately, we're not done with AI yet
AI Teachers and Tutors
Full AI video commercials.
3D AI experiences in VR.
AI medical diagnosis for both consumer and insurance
AI pricing for insurance
AI shopping assistants, clothes, styling, decorating
AI mid-level management to rat out on people not working 60hrs a week.
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AI is here to stay but I can't wait to see it get past the point where every app has to have their own AI shoehorned in regardless of what the app is. Sick of it.
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