I think that’s a great analogy (and I was doing software then).
We know machine learning is a big deal, it’s been a big deal for many years, so of course recent breakthroughs are going to be likewise important.
The short term allocation of staggering amounts of money into one category of technology (Instruct-tuned language model chat bots) is clearly not the future of all technology, and the AGI thing is a weird religion at this point (or rather a radical splinter faction of a weird religion).
But there is huge value here and it’s only a matter of time until subsequent rounds of innovation realize that value in the form of systems that complete the recipe by adding customer-focused use cases to the technology.
Everyone knew the Internet was going to be big, but the Information Superhighway technology CEOs were talking about in the late 90s is just kind of funny now. We’re still glad they paid for all that fiber.
We know machine learning is a big deal, it’s been a big deal for many years, so of course recent breakthroughs are going to be likewise important.
The short term allocation of staggering amounts of money into one category of technology (Instruct-tuned language model chat bots) is clearly not the future of all technology, and the AGI thing is a weird religion at this point (or rather a radical splinter faction of a weird religion).
But there is huge value here and it’s only a matter of time until subsequent rounds of innovation realize that value in the form of systems that complete the recipe by adding customer-focused use cases to the technology.
Everyone knew the Internet was going to be big, but the Information Superhighway technology CEOs were talking about in the late 90s is just kind of funny now. We’re still glad they paid for all that fiber.