I agree, the wow factor is shrinking or wears off quickly. For me too.
For me there are four factors that have generally left me underwhelmed:
- As mentioned in the video, incremental improvement rather than exponential. I am expecting much more.
- Improvement of a single task, rather than improvement of all steps to accomplish my goal.
- Not being better on a scale that matters. For example, using time as the metric, if AI reduces the time to get an image, versus find something good enough on Unsplash, by a few minutes (after multiple iterations to try and get what I want), cool but not amazing. Even more underwhelming if all milestones of the goal I want to accomplish will take 1 hour or more, and not critical to have that just right image.
- Environmental impact, a Google search is a factor of 10x less energy than a single prompt in AI, plus other factors such as enormous quantities of water usage to keep the servers cool. I get it, this is part of the cost, but are they really worth it, for now I would say no.
I am not anti-AI, I think it is interesting to see such a technology happen in my lifetime. I am just pro much better applications of the technology, that create massive value, as the technology truly fits the problem being solved, based on the technologies current capabilities.
thanks for the thoughtful response! Appreciate. I am weirdly hopefully this is the awkward teenage years for AI and it will be a different world in 5 years or so
I agree, the wow factor is shrinking or wears off quickly. For me too.
For me there are four factors that have generally left me underwhelmed:
- As mentioned in the video, incremental improvement rather than exponential. I am expecting much more.
- Improvement of a single task, rather than improvement of all steps to accomplish my goal.
- Not being better on a scale that matters. For example, using time as the metric, if AI reduces the time to get an image, versus find something good enough on Unsplash, by a few minutes (after multiple iterations to try and get what I want), cool but not amazing. Even more underwhelming if all milestones of the goal I want to accomplish will take 1 hour or more, and not critical to have that just right image.
- Environmental impact, a Google search is a factor of 10x less energy than a single prompt in AI, plus other factors such as enormous quantities of water usage to keep the servers cool. I get it, this is part of the cost, but are they really worth it, for now I would say no.
I am not anti-AI, I think it is interesting to see such a technology happen in my lifetime. I am just pro much better applications of the technology, that create massive value, as the technology truly fits the problem being solved, based on the technologies current capabilities.
thanks for the thoughtful response! Appreciate. I am weirdly hopefully this is the awkward teenage years for AI and it will be a different world in 5 years or so
Thank you again for another great video!😀