alt Hacker News> AI isn't a trend that's going to pass, it's permanently going to reshape the tech scene and economy in a way that cryptocoins and NFTs absolutely did not.
This exact wording was used for crypto. "It isn't a trend that's going to pass" and "It's going to reshape everything." Why are we sure of it now for AI (and that we're going to be right), when they were also sure of it before for crypto (and they ended up wrong)?
The AI people have the exact same feelings of absolute certainty as the crypto people had.
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>The AI people have the exact same feelings of absolute certainty as the crypto people had.
Yes, this is what hype is like. Something being hyped doesn't automatically mean it's going to go bust.
Again, everyone smart was making fun of NFT at its peak. People who accomplish things are excited by LLMs, not just teenagers, grifters, bros, and your weird uncle.
People's grandmothers know what AI is and many have used it, even outside the west.
Probably zero grandmothers outside the west, and very few grandmothers within the west, know what NFT even stands for.