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Hindsight is 20/20. The company I worked at went under because people questioned whether enough people would ever buy stuff over the internet to make the busin

Hindsight is 20/20. The company I worked at went under because people questioned whether enough people would ever buy stuff over the internet to make the business viable. It was very much not obvious then. > Gen-AI may be useful to some people, but it's not going to be a central feature of most people's lives—at least not in the forms it exists in today, or what can be clearly extrapolated from them… The problem is that you are going to have to compete with people who are using AI. There is a learning curve, and some people are better at using it than others. Some people know how to use it really well.

dgfitz 1y ago
> There is a learning curve, and some people are better at using it than others. Some people know how to use it really well. It's just google-fu 2.0. It isn't hard at all. There isn't really a trick to it. I daresay learning google-fu was harder.
surgical_fire 1y ago
> The problem is that you are going to have to compete with people who are using AI. This doesn't sound as much of a game changer as you seem to think. Generative AI is a productivity tool, that can help (to an extent) in certain professional settings. It's usage will never be as ubiquitous as the internet (unless you want to build an economy out of users generating memes using AI). While I find it somewhat useful (although pretty far of how hyped it is) the economics of it are still super unclear. Right now companies are willing to dump money into this because it is fashionable with the investor class, but I don't know how long it will take for it to lose steam.