6 comments

  • bfrog 6 hours ago

    Aren’t we all skeptical? What’s the real value exactly.

    • n_ary 4 hours ago

      In a sense, internet was this neat thing to share knowledge between academics and all but now we predominantly serve media and ads over it and all the SEO spam that makes real money.

      AI is now this neat little thing to play around and has some values(non tech people makes MVPs/Emails/Slides, while tech people get faster search and code completion) but who know when the tiktok/fb like moment happens and takes all this AI into rocket to the moon.

      At this moment, I think, the push is the slow boiling the frog, i.e. hold hard until skeptics just become used to it and then a generation becomes dependent on it, from which point it’ll become everyday necessity and become viable business.

      I remember the “for cost of your morning coffee, you get this cool slice of server timeshare(VPS)” when people were skeptic until it became the norm. Now even if that VPS costs much less to operate, we still see the sticking “$5” price. May be AI will continue to be that “$30/month” but with advances in computing, it’ll get cheaper and at a certain point, that $1 spent to earn 80c will become 5c spent to earn $1.

      • apwell23 3 hours ago

        yea ok crypto, metaverse and web3 are going to become a everyday necessity too then

        • bravetraveler 3 hours ago

          I have the perfect outfits for my [Google] Glass.

          So glad to find out we only needed reality to get sufficiently bad for augmentation to pick up. True innovation.

  • tylerchilds 5 hours ago

    fundamentally, windows gained popularity as a personal computer

    that translated well into business since people were familiar with how to use windows

    the efficiency problems microsoft faces as an organization are disjointed from people trying to stay in touch effectively.

    ai solves a lot of problems people can imagine having when being pitched the equivalent of digital timeshare, which mathematically does well when projecting for growth, but the vast majority of people look to get out of their timeshares when it becomes a burden on their lives.

    slop is a new term, but why do we all know what it means already?

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