Ask HN: Is AI the next (current) dot-com era?

#1

Post by SMAAART » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 12:35 PM UTC

I am old enough to remember the dot-com era, and actually I worked at one of those high-flying innovative dot-com, while we didn't make it, technologically speaking we changed the world as we knew it for >10 years after that.

Anyway.

ChatCPT and other first gen AI-apps have surpassed all of my expectations, and this is just the beginning.

I feel like this is the beginning of a wave of innovation, with its ramification, just like we experienced in the dot-com era.

What does HN think?

Re: Ask HN: Is AI the next (current) dot-com era?

#2

Post by celiktom » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 12:38 PM UTC

yes, there is definitely something in it. Bubbles happen when things become “over-invested” above their true value.

Re: Ask HN: Is AI the next (current) dot-com era?

#3

Post by version_five » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 12:58 PM UTC

More like crypto, with the hype peaking way higher and faster.

Dot com is so much more distributed and fundamental infrastructure. The chatbots that everyone think are heralding a new industrial revolution are really an extension on top of the web, not a whole new phase.

I remain amazed that something that so far boils down to an "enhanced bing search" is being treated with such blind enthusiasm

Re: Ask HN: Is AI the next (current) dot-com era?

#4

Post by SMAAART » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 4:47 PM UTC

celiktom wrote: post #2

yes, there is definitely something in it. Bubbles happen when things become “over-invested” above their true value.

I hear you about the "bubble" within the financial markets, over exuberance happens.

I was thinking in terms of technology use in every day life and how it changes the way we live. I am a digital immigrant, and I can't fathom how we lived without internet back in the days, and how it has revolutionized the way we live and work.

I know that AI will change he way we live and work, I think we might underestimate its impact.

Back at the dot-com era, I quit my cushy job, and jumped into the dot-com world, one of the best decisions of my life. Today, I have another cushy job, so I wonder.....