"so far, the consumer applications for #AI are simultaneously underwhelming and dystopian."
which is EXACTLY, EXACTLY the same thing we were saying no more than 3/4 years ago about the Internet of Things, for the same, equally valid reasons:
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/10/business/ai-dystopia-silicon-valley-nightcap/index.html
“But tech companies, faced with the most powerful computing innovation in a generation, are running around like kids who just found their dad’s gun.”
It’s investors and stockholders that are to blame. It’s not Apple who wants AI, they’ve invested over a decade in it, it’s the stockholders and other idiots.
OpenAI (who does it so wrong Scarlett Johansson may sue them) has proved the PT Barnum quote.
I played a few weeks with it and found it wanting.
@feloneouscat @mfioretti there are at least two huge problems with generative AI that I see right now: first, the capacity for people right now to be fooled by disinfo is overwhelming. LLMs are starting to disproportionately contribute to that ecosystem. Second, the old adage that when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail seems to be thoroughly infecting roadmaps. Much capital is being diverted from things that work at least fairly well to difficult to get right AI features.