AI/LLMs are radically expanding my abilities, and as I adapt to this new power, I'm using it more frequently in everyday life.
Sure, Nvidia stock may be overpriced, but AI is empowering. I can't imagine not continuing to expand its use. As its abilities expand, I'll use it even more. I will have much further use even as a few bugs are fixed and integrations become more frictionless.
Maybe it is not for you. Maybe it is for people asking AI questions about you. (or chemistry or gold prospecting or legal documents or ...)
the eric schmidt talk made it seem like better hardware led to better results and there was a race.
Whereas what it could be reinforcing instead is that some people are better at "using AI" than others.
When I was young, I always saw how my parents never really "got" new technology that I was using all the time, like the internet. Many young people think about it and are sure it won't happen to them. I'm sure many on this technophile site think so.
And then a new technology like AI comes along, some people find ways to be incredibly productive with it, but a very widespread sentiment is that they're... lying? Mistaken? Not very good at their job so it helps them more? The number of excuses people have for "keep this new technology that I don't know how to use away for me" is pretty crazy.
(And I say this as someone who is probably not on the "cutting edge" of AI usage, compared to others I see.)
When businesses stop accepting dollars and your employer starts compensating you in crypto will it stop being a “scam” or will the goalposts move again?
(I don’t expect it to see it in my lifetime.)
The scam is comparing some ATMs to what is happening in AI. Trillions of dollars are going into AI and actually useful things like self driving cars are coming out.
Most cryptocurrencies are just straight up scams. Some people are getting some usage of Bitcoin as a store of value and for cross border transactions. This is increasing slowly. Stablecoins also have some usage for store of value and cross border transaction. They are also used for trading and arbitrage, which you can argue about whether that brings value to the world. The rest of the crypto market is struggling to find an enduring use cage. I'm saying this as someone who is marveling about Ethereum and Solana, but I don't value trading immaterial NFTs. Ethereum and the like are struggling to do anything that reaches into the real world. None of the cryptocurrencies outside the top 10 have found any real world use case that people care about.
So AI != crypto