mmooss 2 days ago

The disruptive technology adoption process is at least somewhat predictable, including:

* Most people react negatively to the disruption because of the risk, fear of the unknown, and also because people don't like change.

* Also, early in the development and adoption of a new, immature technology, there is a lot of trial and error regarding applications, mostly error. Sometimes those failures are because the application isn't a good match for the technology; often they are because the technology isn't mature and will still improve and add major features, or because the details of the interface between technology and application are still being worked out.

* The people reacting negatively will point out those errors as signs that the technology is hopeless. Often they are wrong: the tech will mature and improve, and those people will be eclipsed.

The good news is, they won't remember it that way: First they laugh at you, then they tell you it isn't in the Bible (i.e., it violates the orthodoxy, the way things always have been done), then they say they knew it all along. AI is in stage 2.

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tartoran 2 days ago

At least this is funny in the way it looks robotic and dorky. When it gets better it will become increasingly scary to go on this road. Why would anyone want to watch anything gen AI other than a one off curiosity?

CaptainFever 2 days ago

> Why would anyone want to watch anything gen AI other than a one off curiosity?

Case in point. We've heard this statement so many times. Just substitute "gen AI" for "the Internet", "video games", "radio", etc...

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1c75mic/...

mmooss 1 day ago

I take it back then: AI turns out to be in the First they laugh at you stage.