>being blindsided when it, inevitably, becomes mainstream.
I don't see how this could happen. This is not a limited resource. It's not a real estate opportunity. There is enough AI for everyone to buy when it becomes useful to do so.
I think FOMO correctly identifies the irrational effort of many companies to jump in without any idea of what the utility might be in any practical sense.
You are right. But these are different different types of motivations of the same thing. And there is always context for these motivations.
Its a different thing to sell Trump that LLMs should take over crucial decisions within a government than just using it for some prototyping, code completion at work or to create cat pictures at home.
Take Copilot for example. It was rolled out in different companies, I worked with. Aside of warnings and maybe trainings, I doubt the companies are really able to measure the impact that has. Students are already using the technology to do homework. Schools and universities are sending mixed signals about the results. And then those students enter the workforce with Copilot enabled by default.
At least with companies, its the "free market" that will regulate (unless some company is too big to fail...)
FOBBWIIBM - Fear of being blindsided when it, inevitably, becomes mainstream.
Or drop the "fear" altogether:
JOENT - Joy of exploring new territory.