It's the frontier. The only new really big one we know.
It already solved real issues, see alphafold and it will continue until we hit a ceiling.
The money throwing thing is a zeitgeist issue: we have this money and people don't know what to do with it.
But yes ml is now the thing.
And no it was very very far away speaking to a machine and the machine feeling smart. If you can't see this breakthrough as what it is, you will never be excited for any new invention.
Until perhaps aliens are arriving on our door steps.
On all corners people work on so many small pieces advancing what we have.
And plenty of obvious things are not here yet like a full local dev cycle aka ai uses the IDE to change code them executes it, fixes compiler issues and unit tests and then opens a pr.
Local agents/ agents having secure and selected access to our data like giving my agent read only access to my bank account and a 2factor way for it to send money.
Deepseek's reinforcement learning is also a huge new lead.
Nonetheless in parallel robots are coming too.
GenAI is getting better and better. Faster and better video and cheaper. 3D meshes, textures first GenAI ads
It's the frontier. The only new really big one we know.
It already solved real issues, see alphafold and it will continue until we hit a ceiling.
The money throwing thing is a zeitgeist issue: we have this money and people don't know what to do with it.
But yes ml is now the thing.
And no it was very very far away speaking to a machine and the machine feeling smart. If you can't see this breakthrough as what it is, you will never be excited for any new invention.
Until perhaps aliens are arriving on our door steps.