Submission + - The AI bubble is bursting. Long live the king.
butt0nm4n writes: BBC reports Google value plunges by $500bn as AI fears rattle Wall Street
But we’ll be alright. AI helps me with coding, will help researchers research, scientists. science? But as a prospect for Google, how could they make it work alongside their other offerings reliant on Ads?
Intelligence doesn’t have a commercial sponsor and nor should it, intelligence needs to be objective and right. AI/LLM already has a problem with not knowing if it’s wrong, same problem we have as humans, so at best we are getting like for like at greater convenience. If you were to weight it with sponsored content or ads, the value and quality of the original premise drifts.
Becoming dependent upon something for intelligence is a step backward for human development, what has got us this far is not a crutch, it’s chucking the crutch and running with it anyway. Growth mindset has pushed us forward, developing our own intelligence and knowledge.
LLMs can support that, but to replace it, no, we’d give up something that is fundamentally our selves.
I would have been better to call AI, cognitive support or search and summary, but AI was a more marketable term out of Science Fiction and perhaps the Wizard of Oz, a totalitarian pipe dream to invent a god, an authority of knowledge, a source of truth.
There is value in AI, but it has been vastly over valued and hyped. It’s more a story about marketing, creating a sense of value, rather than substance.
Let’s move onto the next innovation, live and learn, divest the AI investments into something more obviously useful and use “AI” as another tool in the box to help us.
The king is dead. Long live the next one.
But we’ll be alright. AI helps me with coding, will help researchers research, scientists. science? But as a prospect for Google, how could they make it work alongside their other offerings reliant on Ads?
Intelligence doesn’t have a commercial sponsor and nor should it, intelligence needs to be objective and right. AI/LLM already has a problem with not knowing if it’s wrong, same problem we have as humans, so at best we are getting like for like at greater convenience. If you were to weight it with sponsored content or ads, the value and quality of the original premise drifts.
Becoming dependent upon something for intelligence is a step backward for human development, what has got us this far is not a crutch, it’s chucking the crutch and running with it anyway. Growth mindset has pushed us forward, developing our own intelligence and knowledge.
LLMs can support that, but to replace it, no, we’d give up something that is fundamentally our selves.
I would have been better to call AI, cognitive support or search and summary, but AI was a more marketable term out of Science Fiction and perhaps the Wizard of Oz, a totalitarian pipe dream to invent a god, an authority of knowledge, a source of truth.
There is value in AI, but it has been vastly over valued and hyped. It’s more a story about marketing, creating a sense of value, rather than substance.
Let’s move onto the next innovation, live and learn, divest the AI investments into something more obviously useful and use “AI” as another tool in the box to help us.
The king is dead. Long live the next one.
