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Please find me someone with any background in technology who thinks AI is complete garbage (zero value or close to it). The author doesn't think so, they assert that "perhaps 10% of the AI hype is based upon useful facts" and "AI functions greatly as a "search engine" replacement". There is a big difference between thinking something is garbage and thinking something is a massive bubble (in the case of AI, this could be the technology is worth hundreds of billions rather than trillions).


Nobody is talking about a financial bubble. That's orthoganol.

Something can be worth zero and still be fucking amazing.

The blog post is talking about the hype in general and about AI in general. It is not just referring to the financial opportunity.

You can use chatGPT for free. Does that mean it's total shit because openAI allowed you to use it for free? No. It's still freaking revolutionary.


> Something can be worth zero and still be fucking amazing.

Gull-wing doors on cars. Both awesome and flawed.


I was thinking more like oxygen.

Amazing because without it you’re dead meat. But nobody gives a shit about it because it’s everywhere and free.

That’s what LLMs are. They are everywhere and too readily accessible so people end up just complaining about too much hype.




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