… A lot of the AI bubble – and that’s what it is, for all there are useful things inside there – is based on “Invest now, because when it works it’ll be fantastic!” rhetoric that’s like investing in a mainframe company in the late 60s on the basis that smartphones will take over the world. We’re moving a lot faster than mainframes went to PCs, but it’s important to invest in the things you can do with the system that work *now*. There isn’t a good consumer use for AI right now. ChatGPT is a terrible source of information, confidently wrong in a way that sounds human enough to cause delusion and psychosis. Things that AI/LLM tech is good for right now – pattern matching, repetitive tasks, logic flow – have some great business cases (It’s made some amazing breakthroughs in satellite and medical imagery, it’s got a bright future in automated transcription), and I think there’s a good case for it in content moderation (Yeah, it’s not great at it, but given the sick shit content mods on…
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