Think about this: when was the last time SV or the broader tech industry brought a revolutionary innovation to the consumer that improved their lives? The smart

Think about this: when was the last time SV or the broader tech industry brought a revolutionary innovation to the consumer that improved their lives? The smartphone? Video streaming? I can't think of a single thing since. And those were both over a decade ago. The tech industry is an environment composed almost entirely of companies running a loss to prove viability (and don't see that as ironic) to raise more funding from investors. AI is just the latest in a long series of empty hype to keep the gravy train running, last year it was VR, and it looks like at this point that the whole thing is teetering on a cliff. It's a bunch of MBAs scrambling for a sales pitch. LLMs are useful. But "extremely lossy compression of documents with natural language lookup built in" doesn't sell endless subscriptions as well as "we created a mind." So they sell hype, which of course they cannot live up to because LLMs aren't minds.