alt Hacker NewsOn what planet has AI under-delivered since 2021? Because it certainly isn't planet Earth.
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I know it sounds crazy but for the amout of investments AI has underdelivered.
The latest Claude models are spooky. About 100x faster then a senior developer snd utterly spooky in the speed and depth of analysis.
This isn’t the “hallucinate everything” style of model like the earlier GPT models…
What AI lab is profitable?
And in before ‘JumpCrissCross chimes in about inference being profitable while ignoring all the investment costs needed to get inference to where it is.
Can you name 3 ways is positively impacted the average non tech persons life in a meaningful way? Meaningful would be more than the invention of the microwave, but not as important as a vaccine.
Too dangerous to release was 2019. Today it's only very useful for coding and other niche industries. It promised to automate all work and to usher in a utopia. Instead it helps programmers further enshittify Big Tech offerings. That's well short of any promise or expectation set out by boosters, paid and otherwise, for the last 7-ish years. Where's the civilization upending change? Where's the Beef(tm)?
Where? I am not aware of any significant business improvement on the actual bottom line.
We all feel more productive. But did your rust rewrite or my fancy react dashboard produce more value?