We've kind of been through this already with autonomous vehicles a decade ago.<p>In a demonstration capacity autonomous vehicles were mindblowing. In the real world the novelty wears off quick, and what remains is a bit of a disappointment.<p>Of course, the demos helped churn up many bajillions of dollars in investment money, and many companies with long runways continue to tinker away at the problem. Level 4 AVs are dramatically better than a decade ago, and yet still totally shitty relative to real to real drivers.<p>What has become apparent is that these companies and their investors are not at all interested in solving any real transportation problems.<p>They are interested in getting between you and things you want to do, so they can set up a gate and charge you money to pass through it.
> the bots are still prone to basic errors that make them impossible to trust<p>This has been my frustration. If I don't bring my own domain knowledge, carefully review, and provide follow up prompts I get garbage output. Novices don't have great domain knowledge and likely overestimate the quality of the output. It's not worth the effort.<p>It's helpful to know what chatgpt can't handle: math, visual, spacial, safety. It's pretty limited.
Sure, you can define "the AI Boom" in such as a way as to say "The AI Boom is over." No problem. But... taking a step back and looking at the bigger picture, I'd say that any slight, contemporary, dip in interest in AI is just that: a dip. A momentary blip at a point in time, hardly the harbinger of any larger trend. There's no reason I see to expect anything less than for AI research to continue, and for AI to become progressively more and more useful.<p>So no, not in an bigger, more universal sense, would I agree that "the AI Boom is over". If anything, it's just starting.
It can't be over because it never arrived in any real, substantial way.<p>We've been waiting for some real "intelligence" from AI for decades now.<p>Creating word salad from ingredients found on the internet isn't it.
Ha, no I don’t think so.<p>This is how we experience the slope of technical change over a period of months:
___<p>This is closer to the slope of technical change over that time period:<p>/