Ask HN: Is AI the next (current) dot-com era?
I am old enough to remember the dot-com era, and actually I worked at one of those high-flying innovative dot-com, while we didn't make it, technologically speaking we changed the world as we knew it for >10 years after that.
Anyway.
ChatCPT and other first gen AI-apps have surpassed all of my expectations, and this is just the beginning.
I feel like this is the beginning of a wave of innovation, with its ramification, just like we experienced in the dot-com era.
What does HN think?
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I was thinking in terms of technology use in every day life and how it changes the way we live. I am a digital immigrant, and I can't fathom how we lived without internet back in the days, and how it has revolutionized the way we live and work.
I know that AI will change he way we live and work, I think we might underestimate its impact.
Back at the dot-com era, I quit my cushy job, and jumped into the dot-com world, one of the best decisions of my life. Today, I have another cushy job, so I wonder.....
Dot com is so much more distributed and fundamental infrastructure. The chatbots that everyone think are heralding a new industrial revolution are really an extension on top of the web, not a whole new phase.
I remain amazed that something that so far boils down to an "enhanced bing search" is being treated with such blind enthusiasm