Assuming this prediction of a tepid future for AI pans out, where is the accountability for all those CEOs and managers who pushed for deep investment based on FOMO, bolstered by wishful thinking and a willing ignorance of the technical details?
IOW, who will be fired for getting this wrong? Answer: nobody.
Some small AI-based companies will tank, but all the leaders in F500 companies know how to survive. If the emperor has no clothes, they'll all have collective amnesia and say they knew it the whole time. A few quotes to the press here, a few emails there, and they will move on with their BSing and talk about "what we learned."
Macha · 37m ago
Note that while none of the CEOs will be fired for getting it wrong, plenty of people will be fired because the CEOs got it wrong, as the CEOs cut headcount to reduce costs to have _something_ to present to investors in earnings reports.
philjohn · 53m ago
At this point you can't convince me that we couldn't just replace most CEO's and VP's with LLM's and get the same, or better, outcomes.
aleph_minus_one · 1h ago
> Ahead of launch, OpenAI's Sam Altman said he'd felt "useless" compared to the model's intelligence, even drawing parallels with the Manhattan Project. When it arrived, users apparently felt less intimidated.
So Sam Altman admitted that he isn't so smart after all? :-)
jameslk · 45m ago
The title is clickbaity compared to the content of the article, which seems to have more nuance. Its claim is that recent AI advances were both overhyped and still have a lot of utility that hasn't propagated fully yet (a la the Internet). Not terribly revelatory at this point
aldebran · 9m ago
What does GPT-5 do that just wasn’t possible before or wasn’t possible as well as it is now?
IOW, who will be fired for getting this wrong? Answer: nobody.
Some small AI-based companies will tank, but all the leaders in F500 companies know how to survive. If the emperor has no clothes, they'll all have collective amnesia and say they knew it the whole time. A few quotes to the press here, a few emails there, and they will move on with their BSing and talk about "what we learned."
So Sam Altman admitted that he isn't so smart after all? :-)
In my daily use cases I only see regressions.