A few months ago I had all my arguments lined up for why AI is absolutely not “the next crypto”. Use cases abound! Don’t take it on faith — ask it anything and you’ll be impressed at the answer! Look at it make a website from a napkin sketch! And to be fair, when all of these legitimately impressive examples started coming out, there was a period when the reality was outpacing the hype. But that golden period of opportunity (where opportunity is defined as the delta between reality and expectations) lasted for maybe six weeks. Now, well…
You hope that the companies that are AI-curious will be pushed to move and some will be... But one of the wars that's being fought right now in the courts is around the training data used for models. The companies with large data moats are some of the worst in terms of claiming to be AI companies, but never actually doing any AI: they make it extremely expensive for anyone else to do AI with their data. If restrictions around ingesting public web data into AI models get more extreme, the incentive to actually build AI will be reduced, I think.
You hope that the companies that are AI-curious will be pushed to move and some will be... But one of the wars that's being fought right now in the courts is around the training data used for models. The companies with large data moats are some of the worst in terms of claiming to be AI companies, but never actually doing any AI: they make it extremely expensive for anyone else to do AI with their data. If restrictions around ingesting public web data into AI models get more extreme, the incentive to actually build AI will be reduced, I think.