> Remember in the mid-90s when people talked about the internet being a fad?
People keep bringing this up and it is pure bullshit.
I lived through the 90's and the Internet was never seen as a fad back then. It was hyped through the whole decade as the future, in many ways rightfully so. The hype was so strong that it culminated in the dotcom bubble early next decade.
You may think that AI skepticism is due to "entrenched interests" that want it to be a fad, I argue that AI hype is due to "entrenched interests" wishing that all overprimises are real.
I regularly use AI - Mosltly local models with either Ollama or Stable Diffusion.
I find it mildly useful in some specific scenarios, but very far from being comparable to the internet in terms of how ubiquitous and necessary it might become.
Well, it was a bubble. There was a major burst in the turn of the century that proved it, with many consequences.
A bubble just meant that the valuation of internet companies at the time were overinflated and detached from reality, not that the Internet as a technology was useless.
I think comparing AI to the internet in terms of usefulness is absolute wishful thinking thinking. The Internet was a major inflection point in the history of the world, maybe in the same magnitude of the advent of computers or the industrial revolution.
AI (and we should be clear that we are actually talking about Generative AI in this context) is an interesting tech, may be pretty useful in some contexts, but it is not in the same league of the previous examples.
People keep bringing this up and it is pure bullshit.
I lived through the 90's and the Internet was never seen as a fad back then. It was hyped through the whole decade as the future, in many ways rightfully so. The hype was so strong that it culminated in the dotcom bubble early next decade.
You may think that AI skepticism is due to "entrenched interests" that want it to be a fad, I argue that AI hype is due to "entrenched interests" wishing that all overprimises are real.
I regularly use AI - Mosltly local models with either Ollama or Stable Diffusion.
I find it mildly useful in some specific scenarios, but very far from being comparable to the internet in terms of how ubiquitous and necessary it might become.