I think one helpful trick when thinking about AI hype is to replace mentions of “AI” with “Blockchain” to see how silly it all sounds.
I think one helpful trick when thinking about AI hype is to replace mentions of “AI” with “Blockchain” to see how silly it all sounds.
Yes, the tech industry has a new hammer and everything looks like a nail, but the reality is, LLMs are finding far more purchase than blockchains did. I wholeheartedly agree that you should not be forced to use an LLM when you don’t want to, much less have any app run one locally without consent, but to suggest LLMs have similar usefulness to blockchains is just ignoring reality. This isn’t the crypto bubble, this is the dotcom bubble. It would be more like replacing all the instances of “AI” with “the internet” or “computers”.