>I’ve been thinking about this: Has current AI truly led to a significant improvement in productivity? In most sectors, definitely not. My day job is in commer

>I’ve been thinking about this: Has current AI truly led to a significant improvement in productivity? In most sectors, definitely not. My day job is in commercial real estate, and in this business I keep hearing from the C-suite that it's transformative, but they just have to figure out what to do with it. They're literally salivating over the hype, but cannot seem to apply it at all. Despite this going on for years now, they remain absolutely certain that it will allow them to take the business to the next level. This is the very nature of the hype around "AI" - living in the fantasy and completely ignoring the reality. That's why I think this will go down as the largest mass delusion in the history of humanity, created by crossing social internet virality with the ancient human tendency to anthropomorphize anything and everything. All of that said, I want to be clear that I think LLMs are extremely useful for certain tasks. They just aren't nearly as useful as the hype would have us all believe. They're also about to get exponentially more expensive when investors get tired of deferring their returns, which is another problem alltogether.