Six months are more than enough to assess whether something is interesting or not. If it were a series, the one in the Artificial Intelligence it would be the new Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad: it is almost impossible to find someone who has not seen or at least knows either. But, as also happens with series, just because a series doesn't start out as a success doesn't mean it doesn't have potential, and Netflix is often wrong about that when it cancels something after only airing a few episodes.
The point is that I have been thinking about the Artificial Intelligence fashion for a long time and how practically everyone is betting everything on it. Microsoft does not stop investing and doing things with Chat GPT, Google prepares its Bard, the search engines show results in bold to save us time, and it's even sneaking into code editors and some normal text editors (like the latest version of OnlyOffice). When I see that "boom" I also think: what if it was temporary? What if the next "big thing" isn't Artificial Intelligence?
ChatGPT showed the way of Artificial Intelligence
No, I am not an expert like Bill Gates who knows everything, nor do I move through Silicon Valley to deny the greatest. I just observe. Before taking a turn towards Artificial Intelligence, Facebook changed its name to Meta and bet (almost) everything on Metaverse. We cannot say that a company like this does not know what interests users, mainly because they do nothing but spy on us. And Apple, quietly, introduced a new "spatial computing" system.
I will not be the one to say that it is cool to wear a kind of helmet to do anything, but there are reasonable doubts. For a start, Apple is not a company that opens markets; it is one that takes good ideas from others, perfects them and sells them creating needs. After the presentation of the VisionPro, and although Mark Zuckerberg denied it, the CEO of Meta was happy, sure. He was happy because another important company appeared that bet on its own idea of the Metaverse, although Meta is another way of having us inside a meta-Facebook.
Another thing to keep in mind is exclusivity. When there is something that you like, copies soon come out, and these are not always much worse than the original. So I think at best the AI will be everywhere, we will end up not noticing it and whoever bet will win the race also by other technologies.
Meta and Apple bet on the "metaverse"
Today, The one who has the advantage of the big technologies with AI is Microsoft, but you are not leaving room for other options. If AI doesn't become the only thing we use in the future, and there's little chance it will, the company Satya Nadella runs will end up losing the tech race against those who have diversified, like Meta and Apple. Google is everywhere, but if you don't get your act together, you can suffer a lot. In fact, 99% of the questions that I used to look for in Google (or DuckDuckGo, StartPage...) now I ask LightIA. Even so, Google also offers many services and is the one behind Android, so you will not be short of sources of information.
All this is nothing more than doubts that a server has when seeing that right now nobody is thinking of innovating in any way other than adding a version of ChatGPT to their products, little else. Before his arrival there was already a lot of movement. Companies like Google, Facebook or Apple already bought/invested in dozens of projects, if they managed to make them useful they turned it into a product and if they didn't "kill" it, but before there was more movement that wasn't unidirectional.
If we could guess the future...
We will have to see what happens in the future. Apple may be losing the Artificial Intelligence race, or perhaps it is timidly using it to improve its software, and if in the future we decide to use spatial computing and from it we can access any chatbot... what will happen to those who Have they bet everything on one card?
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