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Remember 4y ago, when 5G was the next big thing?
Self-driving cars thanks to 5G?
Every industry will be transformed and every single production line will have a 5G campus network.
We will only stream games over 5G!
5G was so frigging important, we needed to ban Huawei from building cell towers because otherwise, they could shut down our whole economy because our whole economy depends on 5G?
Well, that turned out to be a hype. Of course, it did not go away, just like AI will not go away. But it will have a completely different focus, than what most think now. I see a bigger future for AI in girlfriend simulators or user preference adult movies than in replacing STEM jobs.
Good take. AI is, at the end of the day, a buzzword. Machine Learning is simply not the same as true AI, and while Machine Learning's acceleration has been impressive as well as frightening, it's not the coming of Skynet. All the fearmongering about AI's potential that deliberately references our cultural touchstone examples of dangerous AI is all just part of the hype machine, it's simply not there yet, and wont be for a good chunk of time - but making the gullible public and idiotic investors think it's that impressive? Well, that makes your company sound like a good investment!
We also simply apply the batch AI to stuff we already did years ago but did not call it AI back then. Like, Airbus using machine learning to find better and lighter shapes for airplane parts.
And for stuff like writing code, it turns out to be not as helpful as expected. It is impressive for coding noobs like me. According to people I know that code for a living, it is not that big of a deal. A nice addition that helps a little bit on some tasks.
AI really shines in tasks where accuracy is not important. Like making up stories, drawing pictures, creating designs and logos, and writing buzzword PR. And of course rule 34!
Yeah, like, I remember reading about Machine Learning practising StarCraft 2 back in like... 2014? Haha