Comment on Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups?
yarr@feddit.nl 6 days agoAsking what AI is going to do for the average person in 1-3 years is like asking what is the PC going to do for the average person in 1980.
If you were a PC startup in 1980, this was very a relevant question, since PCs at home really didn’t take off in a big way until the web which was almost 20 years later. Look at how many PC manufacturers went out of business between 1980-2000. This is kind of my point, AI is so over-invested right now that if there are not HUGE returns in a short timeframe, there’s going to be some serious blood out there.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Oh yeah, as others said many startups will fail. But you wrote as if AI does nothing like blockchain.
yarr@feddit.nl 6 days ago
I won’t say AI does nothing. I’d say they do a similar amount right now. In the same way that Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies do a few million transactions a day, AI helps with some tasks here and there. The similarity for me is that initially both technologies were hyped as something far larger than they are right now.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Extremely few people hold Bitcoin or will ever want to. Every office worker will use AI. It’s like googling on steroids.