You Guys Didn’t Need to Sell AI So Hard
What comes after generative AI (PART I: REQUIEM)
At this point, asking what comes after generative AI sounds, to those as deep into the rabbit hole as I am, like asking what comes after death: The end never seems to arrive, and you wonder if something worse awaits on the other side — is it the Jabberwocky or just more wonky jabber from a new breed of AI models?
Maybe it’s heaven. But not even a godly paradise could make up for a two-year-long hellish hassle of financial stakeholders bombarding us with promises of a better world.
The better world will come but c’mon guys — you didn’t need to sell it so hard!
The headline offers a flicker of hope: we may be approaching the grand finale of the epic saga that generative AI has become — whether it ends in triumph or tragedy. Once it’s over, the disgruntled will return to their lives or seek a new social cause to champion or, well, forget it all like a bad dream in the morning. The early adopters who found generative AI useful and/or interesting (I belong to this group, in the spirit of transparency) will… also return to their lives.
That’s right —
- Losses pile up.
- Startups go down.
- No killer app has emerged.
