AI: Asteroid Incoming

Before we know it, everything around us is going to change. Here are my notes as of Jan 2025:

  • We live in a world where computers can communicate more naturally, professionally, and even compassionately than most people.
  • Computers have become sorcerers of words, and yet everyone is going about their lives as if nothing has happened.
  • It feels like AI is that Earth shattering asteroid headed straight towards us from the movie Don't Look Up. If you haven't see the movie, please watch it. It’s a brilliant take on human nature.
  • Half the people don’t believe AI will change anything. A few are sounding the alarm. And politicians? They’re doing what they do best—grabbing more power.
  • Unfortunately we live in a hyper world, and people are tired of hypes. In 5 years, we've had
    • Web3
    • Crypto
    • NFTs
  • AI may be hype, but for good reason. There's substance here.
  • Of course, Rule 34 of the Internet prevails.
  • I find it amusing that there aren't killer AI applications yet, except search and coding.
  • Regular everyday people haven't started using AI in their everyday lives.
  • All companies are pushing AI down all their users throats, but none have found a useful application of it.
    • Customer service chatbots are annoying,
    • I never really use GMail and Docs Help me write features to name a few.
  • Perplexity just released their own version of an assistant, and while it's cool, I rarely find myself using assistants right now.
  • I think AI will be like a step function. It'll go from being not useful to suddenly omnipresent. 
  • I use Claude everyday for my hobby project. It has completely replaced me searching on StackOverflow for any help.
  • I use traditional search significantly less now. The only thing I open traditional search for is:
    • to check the weather,
    • to look at stock graphs, and
    • dictionary look ups
  • It's hilarious that BigTech has these Home/Nest devices which use the old Assistant, and it still sucks so bad.
  • Many of my friends don't think LLMs are particularly useful, or don't think it'll change the world any time soon. 
  • AI is the new UI, once it gets good.
  • AI will force applications to be written in a manner that they can be traversed faster without a UI.
  • If current companies don't open up to allow models to go through their services via parseable UI in a cheap manner, there'll be completely new companies started that are backend only companies. The equivalent of cloud kitchens and warehouse-only stores.
  • Not enough people are talking about the implications of everyone being able to run LLMs locally. It changes the web.
  • The dangers of AI? Ah, there are enough people sounding those alarms too.




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