What happened to the AI revolution? (2024)

I keep thinking about email and the early Internet as an example of how the LLM revolution is going.

Like the early Internet, people like LLMs and will pay for access to them. So an LLM is by itself a product. Like the early Internet, LLMs make people vaguely more productive but probably also wastes a lot of people's times. Like the early Internet, LLMs doesn't threaten very many people's jobs since they do anything in a way that you can have full confidence in.

However, this article is mostly about efforts to use LLMs as "real AI". The problem they aren't really that. Everything they do/create requires supervision and so it really doesn't impact company headcount.