[throwaway918299]

I'm more skeptical than most on the current wave of AI tech innovation.

However, believe it or not, humanity can collectively work on different things at the same time. And the people putting emoji generators in phones are probably not the people I would want doing cancer research. And many many things that we rely on today were not directly created by research in those topics and were born from innovation in other unrelated areas.

[chefandy]

You don't feel that the astonishing amount of resources poured into current consumer level AI products is different?

[borski]

No. We poured similarly large amounts of resources into hundreds of companies in the dotcom boom, crypto, and so on.

This is a phase, just like many others, and will pass.

AI and LLMs will stick around and be important. The hype? That will die in favor of something else.