Generative AI is Like the Internet, Which Was Never a Solution Looking for a Problem

The Internet is/was a Tool that Enabled Many Solutions to Address Many Problems

There is an increasing number of voices out there that I feel misunderstand what’s going on with generative AI and large language models (LLM). It’s the hottest topic on the Internet now and for good reason. Rarely do we see something so amazingly different and capable emerge; but we need to get used to an increase in the pace. It’s awesome and scary at the same time, and there are people that are taking advantage of those emotions in order to promote their own brand. Some of this is driven purely by dollars, others by vanity (and ignorance).

Nothing ever seems to change, regardless of what changes around us. We’re human after all.

On the one hand we have people lamenting the fact that the word intelligence is used in the name. On the other hand we have people analyzing the inability of open source copies of LLMs to defeat the incumbents, whi…