I would argue it is more similar to the last few bubbles for this same kind of tech.
A decade or so the big deal was computer vision (think “recognize stuff through the power of AI”). Massive promises were made, a LOT of people specialized in glorified signal processing, and then it mostly faded away when it didn’t live up to the hype.
Except… a significant percentage of the smart home industry is all about paying money to have your video feeds analyzed for people. Same with image hosting services and so forth. Hell, youtube runs on it for DMCA purposes.
And we’re going to see the same thing with “AI” yet again. People will realize chatgpt isn’t going to suddenly manifest itself as Stana Katic and suck you off while telling you you are ten times the man Malcolm Reynolds ever was. But it really does do a lot of “admin work” and is one of the best tools out there for text based pre and post processing of human readable data.
This is so similar to the dotcom boom where people overestimated the technology and how quickly we would achieve the promised goals.
Half of the shit promised in the 90’s only came about in the early 10’s after literal decades of building the infrastructure.
I don’t think it’ll completely go away but people will eventually figure out it’s no magic bullet and it’ll see significantly less investment.
I would argue it is more similar to the last few bubbles for this same kind of tech.
A decade or so the big deal was computer vision (think “recognize stuff through the power of AI”). Massive promises were made, a LOT of people specialized in glorified signal processing, and then it mostly faded away when it didn’t live up to the hype.
Except… a significant percentage of the smart home industry is all about paying money to have your video feeds analyzed for people. Same with image hosting services and so forth. Hell, youtube runs on it for DMCA purposes.
And we’re going to see the same thing with “AI” yet again. People will realize chatgpt isn’t going to suddenly manifest itself as Stana Katic and suck you off while telling you you are ten times the man Malcolm Reynolds ever was. But it really does do a lot of “admin work” and is one of the best tools out there for text based pre and post processing of human readable data.
It’s really useful for troubleshooting unfamiliar devices if you have a PDF of the documentation.
Beyond surface level troubleshooting it’s mostly for parsing large amounts of text for relevant information