Arjun
IPCT Contributor
AI Good and Bad
- Thread starter bigredfish
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I'm always wrong about technology. In high school (late 90's), a classmate told me he was setting up a LAN at his house, and I laughed at him asking why, and was his floppy disks not enough to transfer data.
A couple years later, WiFi was ubiquitous.
Folks were paying a fortune for crappy internet speeds on their cellular flip phones, and I said that will never be a thing, because we have great internet at home (and WiFi, which I said would never be a thing).
In 2008, I built a PC for my grandfather with an SSD, and it was so incredible that I said it would outsell mechanical hard drives in 2 years. I was off by a decade (2021 SSD overtook mechanical hard drive sales).
AI is a bubble like the internet is a bubble; that is to say the flakey garbage went away and we will get the powerful tools. Maybe home networks, internet on your phone, and solid state storage is a passing fad, like AI.
Within 5 years we will have advocate AI agents working for us, or we'll be taking it in the rear continually.
A couple years later, WiFi was ubiquitous.
Folks were paying a fortune for crappy internet speeds on their cellular flip phones, and I said that will never be a thing, because we have great internet at home (and WiFi, which I said would never be a thing).
In 2008, I built a PC for my grandfather with an SSD, and it was so incredible that I said it would outsell mechanical hard drives in 2 years. I was off by a decade (2021 SSD overtook mechanical hard drive sales).
AI is a bubble like the internet is a bubble; that is to say the flakey garbage went away and we will get the powerful tools. Maybe home networks, internet on your phone, and solid state storage is a passing fad, like AI.
Within 5 years we will have advocate AI agents working for us, or we'll be taking it in the rear continually.
I don't remember how long ago I got my first SSD. It was an IDE drive which puts it pretty far back. Ever since, I've been saying that switching to SSD was the single best enhancement for just about any PC. When I switched my BI storage drive to SSD, BI started acting a whole lot snappier and happier.