Making a comparison to crypto is lazy criticism. It’s not even worth validating. It’s people who want to take the negative vibe from crypto and repurpose it. Th

Making a comparison to crypto is lazy criticism. It’s not even worth validating. It’s people who want to take the negative vibe from crypto and repurpose it. The two technologies have nothing to do with each other, and therefore there’s clearly no reason to make comparative technical assessments between them. That said, the social response is a trend of tech worship that I suspect many engineers who have been around the block are weary of. It’s easy to find unrealistic claims, the worst coming from the CEOs of AI companies. At the same time, a LOT of people are practically computer illiterate. I can only imagine how exciting it must seem to people who have very limited exposure to even basic automation. And the whole “talking computer” we’ve all become accustomed to seeing in science fiction is pretty much becoming reality. There’s a world of takes in there. It’s wild. I worked in ML and NLP several years before AI. What’s most striking to me is that this is way more mainstream than anything that has ever happened in the field. And with that comes a lot of inexperience in designing with statistical inference. It’s going to be the Wild West for a while — in opinions, in successful implementation, in learning how to form realistic project ideas. Look at it this way: now your friend with a novel app idea can be told to do it themselves. That’s at least a win for everyone.