The number of companies from startups to large caps getting into generative AI and looking for ways to use it to enhance their business feels pretty…. insane. I have friends who work in completely unrelated industries calling me up asking about ChatGPT, Bard, and the like (and I work in data engineering, not AI, so they have no business calling me tbh).
I haven't really been around long enough to “remember” the dot com bubble, but I feel like we're fast approaching something like that – where AI companies don't actually have to have anything valuable to offer other than saying they're “using ai”.
In short: I see froth. There is a saying in the Computer Science world that I've found to be true time and again – the 90/90 rule… Once you're 90% done, you only have 90% left to build. I feel AI isn't even at 50% and yet all I hear is “ai revolution”.
Is it just me?
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