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You know this curve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations by definition if you are at
by PaulHoule 2mo ago
You know this curve
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_innovations
by definition if you are at the beginning you are in a tiny minority and will be struggling to explain what you're up to. You're describing the experience of people up at the top of the curve who are not innovators at all -- trouble is there is so much talk about innovation from people who are just following the herd these days.
- juntz 2mo agoGot it. Real innovation have almost no audience. Any things that seems to be innovation may be not real yet. So there is much people to do the same things, I'm just one person among them.
- PaulHoule 2mo agoAlso some things take a long time to develop. One of my great heroes is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Tsiolkovsky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Tsiolkovsky who knew that man would set foot on the moon based on some assumptions about conservation of momentum and the kinetic theory of gases. Myself I was involved in several projects in the 2010s, both working for other people and myself, that were going in the direction of today's chatbots. The technology was not ready! I thought this talk was up to the minute when I gave it https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/chatbots-in-2017-ithaca-talk-dec-6/69926712 https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/chatbots-in-2017-ithaca... and three years later felt time had passed it by, and today it seems prophetic.
- anslopic 2mo agoWeren’t startups like Cresta (founded 2017) already doing stuff like that commercially before your talk? I remember being very impressed back then by their chat bots, how conversational they were, even though now it’s obsoleted by LLMs.