Does anyone else feel like the crypto crowd just migrated to AI?
(It is a broad generalization to assume that these traits are mutually exclusive. They do, of course, co-exist in many people. However, it seems to me that the number of people in whom they coexist robustly are few. However, if is these few from whence come true once-in-a-generation geniuses.)
I distractedly typed it out while doing something else and didn't realize how unintelligible I made it sound until it was too late to edit!
these projects have direct commercial applications right now.
What you say about AI is true; however, from where I'm standing, it seems there is still too much greed-driven, mindless "no problem; we'll simply brute-force the problem of inventing a machine that does human-level cognition, which is a thing we admit we do not understand at all"-type enthusiasm, and not enough openness, humility, and critical thinking in the field.