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> This is legitimately just the same damn hype train the tech sector is constantly attempting to create. Now AI is the next internet. Before that it was the met

by rapsey 2y ago

> This is legitimately just the same damn hype train the tech sector is constantly attempting to create. Now AI is the next internet. Before that it was the metaverse. Before that it was NFTs. Before that it was cryptocurrency. Before that it was quantum. Before that it was VR. Before that it was AR. Neither of those things you listed were mainstream trends. If you can not distinguish between fads and major trends that is your problem. Internet, Mobile, Cloud and now AI are technology trends with mainstream buy in from the biggest companies in the world.

ToucanLoucan 2y ago
> If you can not distinguish between fads and major trends that is your problem. You're distinguishing based on hindsight. It's mainstream if it succeeds and if it doesn't, it was a fad. How much did Zuckerburg put into Facebook's metaverse projects? I believe it was $46 billion. Then there was Decentraland too, those were as mainstream as it got. You had tons of internet-famous people cashing in for hundreds of thousands of dollars just for selling their original copies of reddit memes. How is that not at least somewhat mainstream? I have zero doubt whatsoever that after the AI bubble lets go, I'll be having this same damn conversation with someone else and they'll be saying AI was a fad. That's my entire point.
- rapsey 2y ago
  Only zuck was metaverse obsessed. Decentraland I've never heard of it, so it was not mainstream at all. NFTs were never mainstream. All of your examples are bad. AI has buy in from the entire tech sector. Just like the cloud, mobile and internet did.
surgical_fire 2y ago
> Neither of those things you listed were mainstream trends They certainly were sold as trends about to go mainstream.
- rapsey 2y ago
  To suckers.
- mewpmewp2 2y ago
  I didn't hear of them or used the technologies you mentioned as much as AI. Anecdotal, but I don't find them remotely comparable.
  - surgical_fire 2y ago
    I also didn't use metaverse or crypto or AR or VR, but the hype around them was pretty much insufferable.

by rapsey 2y ago

ToucanLoucan 2y ago

> If you can not distinguish between fads and major trends that is your problem. You're distinguishing based on hindsight. It's mainstream if it succeeds and if it doesn't, it was a fad. How much did Zuckerburg put into Facebook's metaverse projects? I believe it was $46 billion. Then there was Decentraland too, those were as mainstream as it got. You had tons of internet-famous people cashing in for hundreds of thousands of dollars just for selling their original copies of reddit memes. How is that not at least somewhat mainstream? I have zero doubt whatsoever that after the AI bubble lets go, I'll be having this same damn conversation with someone else and they'll be saying AI was a fad. That's my entire point.

rapsey 2y ago
Only zuck was metaverse obsessed. Decentraland I've never heard of it, so it was not mainstream at all. NFTs were never mainstream. All of your examples are bad. AI has buy in from the entire tech sector. Just like the cloud, mobile and internet did.

surgical_fire 2y ago

> Neither of those things you listed were mainstream trends They certainly were sold as trends about to go mainstream.

rapsey 2y ago
To suckers.
mewpmewp2 2y ago
I didn't hear of them or used the technologies you mentioned as much as AI. Anecdotal, but I don't find them remotely comparable.
- surgical_fire 2y ago
  I also didn't use metaverse or crypto or AR or VR, but the hype around them was pretty much insufferable.