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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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Isn't this a stupid attitude?
Wasn't the dot-com bubble anything other than people showing the internet in your face and how it's a game changer 24/7.
We are simply at the peak of the initial hype curve of the Gartner hype cycle, the bubble will burst soonish and lots of companies go bankrupt, then real use cases will emerge where it's actually revolutionary.
I don't know which youtuber but one had a good video about it, at some point in the past, all hype was around drones and delivering stuff to your front yard, turned out that was stupid yet those things found their niche, e.g. some medicine deliveries to remote location in Africa and AED devices that can fly out to people.
You're both right. The extreme hype means it isn't yet all that useful. But it doesn't mean it won't get there. Once it is there, they won't need to hype it as much.
No, the hype is over-stating how useful it will eventually be.
out of all the comments in this thread, yours is probably the best thought out. I'll admit, I'm very much in line with OP, in that the more someone hypes something up, the less I want to do with it. I get increasingly skeptical, and that gets seriously compounded when I see C-suites give nebulous answers on how things will improve with a new invention.
I think it'll find its niche, but right now, the fucking thing can barely do math, and is at best, a learned pig. There's really big barriers to making AI actually useful, such as the scalability and energy/water requirements. Until we can get elegant coding and inputs, we're going to struggle.