The thing that's interested me about the last 5 or so years is how much its become the case that everyone is now seeking to be a thought leader. It seems like

The thing that's interested me about the last 5 or so years is how much its become the case that everyone is now seeking to be a thought leader. It seems like at some point the VC crowd decided that because money was basically free they needed other ways of sourcing investment opportunities so they started trying to become "thought leaders". Which kind of makes sense, if you do it well the branding can be an advantage. But it runs into this problem of toxic positivity. No one wants to hear "Well, this technology, like every technology before it, is promising but unlikely to fully solve 99.99% of the problems it looks promising on today". So instead of having a real conversation about the viability of autonomous vehicles you've got motivated actors and lobotomized supporters making end-of-days style claims about technology, and each time these claims turn out to be totally unfounded we all just move on to the next topic. Can we stop and disect the failing gig-economy model, web3 movement, and elf-driving before we listen to those same people about AI? That's kind of what I'd like to know, before the CEO of DeepMind opines on AI I'd like to hear his thoughts on what he learned about his last predictions.