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The Accenture report this is based on looks like science fiction to me.

https://www.accenture.com/us-en/insights/technology/technolo... (links to a PDF which is horrible to read on mobile, I guess Accenture don't think any of their target audience spend work time away from a laptop)

It talks about "trust" a LOT, which indicates they expect a robust solution to LLM security and reliability (see prompt injection) soon.

I do not share their optimism.

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Remember when blockchain was going to be used in everything?

Now we have AI + the ever favorite avatars.

Don't forget The Metaverse.

Except AI is kinda already in everything from iphones to windows to google? Don't think that point holds well

Except has been pushed down into places where it does not make any sense just for the sake of riding the ai race. It’s like Clippy but integrated everywhere, eg in the chrome developer tools, nobody wanted it. On iPhone? I won’t be surprised if most users don’t use any generative ai feature at all. And other useful features were already inside the system but since they’re not “generative” they’re getting marketed as such or wrapped by a useless natural language prompt

I agree about the general silliness of most of the "generative" features - I was only contesting that to me, there's a clear difference in the rate of institutional belief/backing and adoption

Sure, but are LLMs? This is like saying "hashes are already used in everything from databases to network routers, so surely blockchain will succeed too!"

Not that I disagree that LLMs _will_ be used in a lot of places, many more than blockchain, but I want to point out that there is a qualitative difference between the two.

They have a lot of faith in billable hours.

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