A year ago, I set up a reminder in TickTick:
I’m late, but there have been complications, documented elsewhere.
And it turns out, the state of AI can be summed up succinctly, list-style (my favourite style):
- VC money is still pouring in, somewhat bafflingly, because it seems clear the average person does not particularly want AI.
- AI slop is now everywhere and flooding social media, especially anything Meta owns. Meta is investing heavily into AI. Maybe it will change its name again, from Meta to AI.
- Apple has crawled so far up its own trillion dollar butt that they thought it would be clever to inject their brand into their AI efforts and call it Apple Intelligence. It has thus far landed with a complete thud, and works best for generating memes the likes of which we haven’t seen since the early days of autocorrect.
- Microsoft is shoving AI into everything. No one wants it.
- Nvidia, being the maker of shovels (AI chips) during the gold rush, is doing great. For now.
It’s all stupid, terrible and destroying the environment. I am leaning toward not a major collapse or crash, but one more akin to a slowly-leaking balloon, as companies scale back efforts over the year. There will still be layoffs, of course, because nothing boosts quarterly results like a good round of layoffs.
