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It’s part of my day job to keep up with tech news, and these days there isn’t a news story about tech that isn’t all about AI. The good, the bad, the ugly, it’s all AI all the time. Even hyper specific industry news that should be all about M&A and product launches is just all AI as well (when it isn’t just “CEO Says” articles, most of which are just more AI BS).
When a new company has something to announce that isn’t AI, they will sandwich it between two AI announcements just to get the views and placate the investors.
it also became super-entertwined with this admistrations, normally i dont keep up with it.
AI is the buzz at the moment and is driving investment. From the perspective of the business of selling tech it matters most.
But that’s largely because companies involved in tech are trying to find use cases for AI that can move the needle, as is the case for many new technologies in search of a problem to solve.
If the starting position is “fuckai” or “fuckwork”, or “fuckzuck”, well I guess thats awesome but doesn’t really seem like a conversation about tech or how it may eventually solve problems or change the world.
almost all the tech conference schedules around us are peddling AI in one form or another, they mostly abandoned other forms of tech that are actually useful. i see alot of things falling apart after it bursts.
Do you feel like AI and its current form is ever going to go away?
To me it seems like we’re well beyond the point of it going away ever. It may never live up to the hype of replacing all the jobs.
We also know that AI companies are footing a large chunk of the bill. Someday those prices are going to crank up and a bunch of work we shovel over to AI will go back to humans.
Heck, it may have peaked already - we may not have any more killer uses to discover. Or maybe we do, and that’s partly why I’m here - I’m pretty interested to see if some interesting uses cases emerge. Some really tough or annoying problem that we all hate to do that AI can start actually doing really good work at.