This is such a good perspective and thank you for posting. I agree with your statements and of all the hype cycles that have happened, I think this does have a real shot of becoming something. Because of that I think they’re going to keep throwing money at this until someone figures it out. Because what else is there left to grift on in tech right now?
> I think this does have a real shot of becoming something.
I wouldn't be doing a PhD if I didn't. PhDs are terrible. I'm amazed people do them for "the money" and not the passion.
> Because of that I think they’re going to keep throwing money at this until someone figures it out.
My concern is who they throw money at, and even more specifically who they don't throw money at.
Some people known to do carpet pulls, no prior experience in ML, and throw together a shitty demo that any ML researcher should be skeptical of?
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PhD researchers turning their theses into a product?
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Something's off.... But I guess when Eric Schmidt is saying you should steal and ask for forgiveness later, I don't think anyone should be surprised when unethical behavior becomes prevalent.
> Because what else is there left to grift on in tech right now?
l̶i̶f̶e̶Hype finds a way. There's always something to grift.
The key thing to always recognize: grifters are people who have solutions and are looking for problems (e.g. hamstring AI into everything) while honest people have problems and are looking for solutions (i.e. people understand the limits of what we can do, the nuances of these things, and are looking to fill in that gap). I can tell you right now, anyone saying anything should be end-to-end AI is a grifter (including Google search). We just aren't there yet. I hope we get there, but we are quite a ways. Pareto is a bitch when it comes to these things.
