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Let’s put today’s AI era into some historic context by looking at the similarities and parallels to the explosion of the 1st wave of the consumer Internet. (Part 1 of 3)
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- Building the Information Super Highway (pre-2000)
- Executives discuss the Information Super Highway
- 2001 - A DotCom Bubble Odyssey (Cloudcast Eps.772)
- Part 1: How Today's AI is like the Early 2000s (Cloudcast Eps:826)
- Part 2: How Today’s AI is like the Early 2020s (Cloudcast Eps.828)
WE’RE FASCINATED BY THE IDEA OF TECHNOLOGY CHANGING EVERYTHING
- 2000s era Internet was going to change everything
- GenAI is predicted to change everything
MOST TECHNOLOGY’S SHIFT HAPPEN WITH CONSUMERS FIRST
- GenAI still can’t validate accuracy (e.g. hallucinations)
- GenAI is still extremely expensive to create, maintain
- GenAI still doesn’t have a widely-adopted business model
- Shadow GenAI groups will emerge in the Enterprise
- People are still mostly thinking about GenAI as a way to offload things they don’t want to do vs. improving their existing skills
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