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AI is way underhyped, its just going to take society a long time to integrate this tectonic shift into our existing ways of working

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I agree it is underhyped. Many are like “oh, this is like blockchain, web3, ar/vr, quantum”— but whatever the promise of those technologies, AI is the only one with hundreds of millions of people productively using it everyday.

Err, billions of people use the web everyday in ways that make them vastly more productive. Looking up random docs is now trivial whereas before the web, if you were luck your library might have an old copy.

And even then, the web was over-hyped at various points in its life. And it took a terrible crash to sort out what was real from what wasn’t. It’s not that the web wasn’t absolutely transformative (it was!) but it wasn’t what a huge number of proponents thought it would be either.

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