Comment by gitfan86

2 years ago

In the early 2000s people were also annoyed about all the internet hype. "DotCom this and DotCom that" and it was stupid that a company could announce they were adding a DotCom to their name and the stock would go up a bunch. So yes, it is annoying that all these crypto scammers and entrepreneurs have put a wrapper around GTP API call and hype it up.

BUT the rate of change in AI is enormous and it will be a much bigger deal than the internet over the next 10 years. Not because of API wrappers, but because the cost of many types of labor will effectively go to zero.

>In the early 2000s people were also annoyed about all the internet hype.

Well, they were right...

  • They were right? Even if we only consider the ability of the internet to enable remote work, the internet's impact to human life is astronomic.

    • Astronomically annoying more like it...

      People need to get off being 24/7 wired and chill more. The last thing people, society, and the environment needs is the kind of changes the internet brought...