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Every 3D Tvs fan said the same. VR enthusiasts for two decades as well. Almost nothing, and most certainly no tech is inevitable.
Sir, this is a Wendy's. You personally attacking me doesn't change the fact that AI is still not inevitable. The bubble is already deflating, the public has started to fall indifferent, even annoyed by it. Some places are already banning AI on a myriad of different reasons, one of them being how insecure it is to feed sensitive data to a black box. I used AI heavily and have read all the papers. LLMs are cool tech, machine learning is cool tech. They are not the brain rotted marketing that capitalists have been spewing like madmen. My workplace experimented with LLMs, management decided to ban them. Because they are insecure, they are awfully expensive and resource intensive, and they were making people less efficient at their work. If it works for you, cool, keep doing your thing. But it doesn't mean it works for everyone, no tech is inevitable.
We had a custom made model, running on an data center behind proxy and encrypted connections. It was atrocious, no one ever knew what it was going to do, it spewed hallucinations like crazy, it was awfully expensive, it didn't produce anything of use, it refused to answer shit it was trained to do and it randomly leaked sensitive data to the wrong users. It was not going to assist, much less replace any of us, not even in the next decade. Instead of falling for the sunken cost fallacy like most big corpos, we just had it shut down, told the vendor to erase the whole thing, we dumped the costs as R&D and we decided to keep doing our thing. Due to the nature of our sector, we are the biggest players and no competitor, no matter how advanced the AI they use will never ever get close to even touching us. But yet again, due to our sector, it doesn't matter. Turns out AI is a hindrance and not an asset to us, thus is life.