Inspired by https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/smells-a-little-bit-like-ai-winter
Resolves extremely subjectively, based on whether it seems to me at the end of 2024 like AI progress has stalled and people have gotten much less interested in it.
I think the fact that we haven’t heard anything from @IsaacKing or in these comments for several months speaks volumes.
WSJ article came out yesterday: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-ai-revolution-is-already-losing-steam-a93478b1
@LeeWoods I disagree, and this is pretty much the crux for me. The money being pumped into AI needs to see some sort of return. Increasing training costs x10 isn't worth it anymore, it's extremely hard to increase revenues proportionally.
See OpenAI and their soft pivot (if you want to call it that) to mundane utility. With omni, they're making a push towards commercialization at current AI tech levels. It should also be clear at this point that SORA was announced for the purpose of shopping it around to potential business partners in Hollywood. I suspect that generation is too expensive to offer it at reasonable rates to random consumers (this was already my guess based on my domain knowledge, but now we have practical evidence as well)