Comment by jacquesm

Steve Jobs, the guy that got booted out of his own company and that required a lifeline from his arch nemesis to survive?

This is all true, but it was only true in hindsight and as such does not carry much value.

It's possible that you are right and AI is 'the future' but with the present day AI offering I'm skeptical as well. It isn't at a level where you don't have to be constantly on guard against bs and in that sense it's very different from computing so far, where reproducibility and accuracy of the results were important, not the language that they are cast in.

AI has killed the NLP field and it probably will kill quite a few others, but for the moment I don't see it as the replacement of general computing that the proponents say that it is. Some qualitative change is still required before I'm willing to check off that box.

In other news: Kodak declares digital cameras a fad, and Microsoft saw the potential of the mp3 format and created a killer device called the M-Pod.