I can easily imagine having this conversation with someone in the late 90s, when there was so much excitement about the internet. If, as a skeptic, you were to ask me why the internet was really needed or why anyone would take the trouble to connect to it on a daily basis, I wouldn’t have been able to give a complete and correct answer, not being able to predict the future with any accuracy.
But AI is already super useful as a tool for sifting through data, finding patterns and acting based on patterns. Its potential applications in medical diagnostics or surveillance (yes, I hate that too but it is what it is) are huge. People like to shit on LLMs but they do go beyond what search engines or scripts can do. But the real question is what AI will be in the next decade or so. And much like the internet in its early days, we can only guess at its future capabilities, how it will integrate with our lives, what will take off, and what is just a scam. Everyone is selling ideas that don’t work yet but seem exciting. But just because it’s inflated, oversold, and often untrustworthy, doesn’t mean that AI as a whole is just a mirage. It will be huge, and change our world fundamentally. That said, I’m still shorting Palantir ;)
I can easily imagine having this conversation with someone in the late 90s, when there was so much excitement about the internet. If, as a skeptic, you were to ask me why the internet was really needed or why anyone would take the trouble to connect to it on a daily basis, I wouldn’t have been able to give a complete and correct answer, not being able to predict the future with any accuracy.
But AI is already super useful as a tool for sifting through data, finding patterns and acting based on patterns. Its potential applications in medical diagnostics or surveillance (yes, I hate that too but it is what it is) are huge. People like to shit on LLMs but they do go beyond what search engines or scripts can do. But the real question is what AI will be in the next decade or so. And much like the internet in its early days, we can only guess at its future capabilities, how it will integrate with our lives, what will take off, and what is just a scam. Everyone is selling ideas that don’t work yet but seem exciting. But just because it’s inflated, oversold, and often untrustworthy, doesn’t mean that AI as a whole is just a mirage. It will be huge, and change our world fundamentally. That said, I’m still shorting Palantir ;)
Those are the "expert systems’ they were talking about. ML systems and not genAI. They are not the AI people mean when they use the word AI.