Arjun
IPCT Contributor
AI Good and Bad
- Thread starter bigredfish
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I'm always wrong about technology. In high school (late 90's), a classmate told me he was setting up a LAN at his house, and I laughed at him asking why, and was his floppy disks not enough to transfer data.
A couple years later, WiFi was ubiquitous.
Folks were paying a fortune for crappy internet speeds on their cellular flip phones, and I said that will never be a thing, because we have great internet at home (and WiFi, which I said would never be a thing).
In 2008, I built a PC for my grandfather with an SSD, and it was so incredible that I said it would outsell mechanical hard drives in 2 years. I was off by a decade (2021 SSD overtook mechanical hard drive sales).
AI is a bubble like the internet is a bubble; that is to say the flakey garbage went away and we will get the powerful tools. Maybe home networks, internet on your phone, and solid state storage is a passing fad, like AI.
Within 5 years we will have advocate AI agents working for us, or we'll be taking it in the rear continually.
A couple years later, WiFi was ubiquitous.
Folks were paying a fortune for crappy internet speeds on their cellular flip phones, and I said that will never be a thing, because we have great internet at home (and WiFi, which I said would never be a thing).
In 2008, I built a PC for my grandfather with an SSD, and it was so incredible that I said it would outsell mechanical hard drives in 2 years. I was off by a decade (2021 SSD overtook mechanical hard drive sales).
AI is a bubble like the internet is a bubble; that is to say the flakey garbage went away and we will get the powerful tools. Maybe home networks, internet on your phone, and solid state storage is a passing fad, like AI.
Within 5 years we will have advocate AI agents working for us, or we'll be taking it in the rear continually.
