[chemotaxis]

Probably because AI appears to work, more or less, and now it's just a race to make it better and to monetize it.

Before ChatGPT, I'd guess that the amounts of money poured in both of these things were about the same.

[halfcat]

> Probably because AI appears to work, more or less

All nondeterministic AI is a demo. They only vary in the duration until you realize it’s a demo.

AI makes a hell of a demo. And management eats up slick demos. And some demos are so good it takes months before you find out how that particular demo gets stuck and can’t really do the enterprise thing it claimed to do reliably.

But also some demos are useful.