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Why would it? It's a technology, not an artifical belief system to just disappear because people got tired of it. Hype might go away, along with some of today
by dmantis 5mo ago
Why would it?
It's a technology, not an artifical belief system to just disappear because people got tired of it.
Hype might go away, along with some of today's usages, but the fact that we know about the technology means it will stay in one fo or another.
- the_gastropod 5mo agoIn other words, it’s a thought terminating cliche. Why say it? The Juicero is here to stay! There’s no putting the genie back in the bottle.
- KptMarchewa 5mo agoComparing it to Juicero is also thought terminating.
- AnimalMuppet 5mo agoNo. You're not thinking it through well enough. The technology involved in Juicero (or Pets.com, or many others) didn't go away. We could rebuild them any time we wanted to. Those things went away because they weren't able to make enough money to be an ongoing business. Will AI? That is at least an open question at this point. (I mean, in fairness, Amazon's was an open question for many years too.) The tech isn't going anywhere. Is there a path to a sustainable business model that uses that tech? You may have an answer to that question. Can you prove it to someone who doesn't already agree with your answer?
- satvikpendem 5mo agoJuicero wasn't useful therefore it went away. Generative AI is useful therefore it won't go away, just like how fire is kMy old yet it's still here to stay.
- WorldMaker 5mo agoJuicero had customers that thought it was useful. Both "smoothie juicers" and "smoothie subscriptions" were big product categories equally before and after Juicero tried to unite them with a technological middleman. Kuerig, the Juicero of coffee, remains quite active and profitable (and wasteful).
- jononor 5mo agoThere are likely _many_ paths to sustainable business models based on AI tech, that will come to fruition over the next decades. However whether they might not be as profitable as OpenAI and Anthropic are gambling on, is more uncertain.
- sifar 5mo agoSwords, bows and arrows, castles were all here to stay. Technologies fade away when they are no longer useful, cost/benefit ratio is too high or something better comes along. It is question of when.
- KptMarchewa 5mo agoThey stopped being used as primary weapons because better ones were found - mostly firearms - not because people got bored of it; or reverted to some earlier methods of warfare.
- sifar 5mo agoYes, there is the general class of technologies (warfare, computing ...) and there are particular instances of those for a given time and space and evolve as the landscape changes. The technology of warfare evolved to better mechanisms, perhaps same with computing.
- charcircuit 5mo agoNo one is claiming that ChatGPT 5.5 is here to stay and be popular forever. More advance AI models will replace what exists today.
- chaps 5mo agoBows and arrows are still widely used for hunting all over the world. I was able do freelance work on a relatively low income because of access to ~150lbs of deer meat that came from multiple bow-hunted deer.
- u_fucking_dork 5mo agoSo you’re saying today’s models are sticks and stones and you’re looking forward to the nuclear submarine equivalent models?
- lucketone 5mo agoBuilding on that futurism. We might design organic brain extensions, so people just become smarter, making LLMs obsolete. (Brain-Bluetooth interface for additional cost)