We've had Sama doing a world tour saying its going to displace so many jobs people will try to kill him.

We have a hardware company pretending that just adding more TOPS is going to get us to AGI.

We have AGI benchmarks that don't even test for AGI (how can you be 50% AGI...)

At some point it has to deliver insane value, and that point is soon because the numbers aren't adding up. People are realizing it's good at like 30 of the 3000 things its proposed to do.

Alternate take: companies are starting to productize the technology breakthrough of 2023 and the products that are coming out range from underwhelming to worrisome, which doesn't deliver on the breakthrough's hype.

While part of the 2023 hype cycle was built on doomer fantasies of a massive and proximate labor disruption, I don't see a lot of people in the news industry feeling like their "business model is threatened" by Recall and Apple Intelligence, or even by ChatGPT and Copilot. I don't think that's what's driving the coverage.

Or maybe it's because LLMs don't live up to the hype.

Unlimited pseudo-articles with no connection to reality are certainly a threat to news, but not one we should be celebrating.

It's just the hype cycle - happens for everything. We are going over the top part of it now.