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Having worked with Ai for over a decade, knowing how poorly early transformer models performed, and observing Open Ai since the GPT-2 days, I knew the promises conversational artificial intelligence was finally being recognised with the launch of GPT 3.5 and the UX that placed it in the hands of all. What I initially failed to understand was the magnitude of the shift it was triggering as we enter the 4th industrial revolution . I asked someone recently who had met with over 100 AI companies of their view on AI was, is it a feature, is it a company operating system, is it an architectural layer, is it a product. Unfortunately they didn’t have an answer. I currently think of as a moment like when humans tamed fire somewhere around 1 million years ago. It’s uses are immense and it’s triggering an intelligence evolution like we haven’t witnessed in our lifetime. Highly recommend reading the comments of this post to see others views with regards to one of the largest advertising companies on the planet. #ageofintellgence #4thindustrialrevolution
I just left Google last month. The "AI Projects" I was working on were poorly motivated and driven by this panic that as long as it had "AI" in it, it would be great. This myopia is NOT something driven by a user need. It is a stone cold panic that they are getting left behind. The vision is that there will be a Tony Stark like Jarvis assistant in your phone that locks you into their ecosystem so hard that you'll never leave. That vision is pure catnip. The fear is that they can't afford to let someone else get there first. This exact thing happened 13 years ago with Google+ (I was there for that fiasco as well). That was a similar reaction but to Facebook. BTW, Apple is no different. They too are trying to create this AI lock-in with Siri. When the emperor, eventually, has no clothes, they'll be lapped by someone thinking bigger. I'm not a luddite, there *is* some value to this new technology. It's just not well motivated. Edit: Well, this has blown up. To be very clear, I wasn't a senior leader at Google, my projects were fairly limited. My comment comes more from a general frustration of the entire industry and it's approach to AI
