Every business desperate for a boost in cash (and a pool of desperate LinkedIn posters) are pretending that they just invented machine learning in the last 18 months.
"AI" has become synonymous with either "snake oil" or "desperate marketing".
The government has sunk billions into EV incentives for instance, but consumers are currently struggling with inflation for essentials like food and shelter. A slightly cheaper EV isn't really a priority for many, which explains why EV inventories are piling up.
Simple test: Can a regular consumer derive value in less than 20 keystrokes that they already know how to type (eg English)? How about 50? 100?
LLMs: yes
Crypto: no
I suppose we’ll see in 2-3 years how many businesses maintain their newly found focus on “AI”. I’m betting that the organizations that aren’t employing internal teams training their own models will drop off quickly.
A lot of companies are just throwing together an interface to OpenAI and praying for the best. Long-term this won’t work. Users will eventually demand 100.0% data accuracy.
Eventually the novelty will wear off.