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Predicting a new technology doesn't live up to the hype is always the smart bet. But that doesn't mean you can't: 1. Carve out a career and build some useful
by fullshark 4y ago
Predicting a new technology doesn't live up to the hype is always the smart bet. But that doesn't mean you can't:
1. Carve out a career and build some useful tech with it
2. Get VCs to give you money to build a company that gets acquired
3. Build a genuinely profitable private enterprise with it.
Etc.
Multiple possibilities for (professional) success here which doesn't involve generative AI being bigger than semantic search.
- sharemywin 4y agoI don't disagree with your comments.
- falcolas 4y agoIt's both a sign of the times and a shame in my opinion that none of these options include the words "sustainable" or "long term". Just short term, unsustainable play using someone else's money to follow a fad. But that's probably just my elder millennial desire for stability that's beyond my reach.
- throwthrowuknow 4y agoYou need short term playfulness in order to find new markets and ideas. Everyone has these “peanut butter or chocolate” opinions when the answer is always “both”
- beepbooptheory 4y agoThe whole first part of the infamous "Parrots" paper is concerned with the potential negative environmental outcomes of relying/adopting large LLMs, but nobody ever talks about that part! Many were/are rightly concerned with proof of work mining, now ontop of all that there is an even bigger incentive on a global scale to have a million high powered GPUs running all the time. And then they tell us these things will completely replace not only index-based search, but education, customer service, all document processing, etc. Even if these things can underpin a viable business, its going to still push the needle that much further into unviable planet. Which, I dont know, doesn't feel like a particularly sophisticated future to me.