At the MIT Technology Review, my old colleague Mat Honan has a great piece about the simultaneous promise and overpromise of AI:
In some ways, the AI hype cycle has to be out of hand. It has to justify the ferocious level of investment, the uncountable billions of dollars in sunk costs. The massive data center buildouts with their massive environmental consequences created at massive expense that are seemingly keeping the economy afloat and threatening to crash it. There is so, so, so much money at stake.
Which is not to say there aren’t really cool things happening in AI. And certainly there have been a number of moments when I have been floored by AI releases.
Come for the trenchant tech analysis, stay for the surprise marine biology.
