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...