At an AI convention on the shut of the yr, I used to be within the audio system’ lounge ending up my work when three loud AI executives entered simply earlier than the penultimate panel for the day on “the way forward for AI”. After a fast look in my route (probably to make sure I used to be a innocent NPC), certainly one of them loudly proclaimed “this should be my what…thirtieth? 35? convention this yr.”
After a pause he added, “…and you recognize what, they’re all beginning to sound the identical.”
Whereas musing about putting in guardrails in my eardrums to filter out the humblebrag, I admit: he had some extent. There may be disturbing ‘sameness’ in AI narratives. It sounds one thing like:
AI brokers and agentic workflows are the subsequent wave.
AI pilots are aplenty. AI in manufacturing is dicey.
AI is not going to take your job, individuals who know AI will.
AI governance is essential. One thing one thing EU AI Act.
As we cross over into 2025, regardless of churning AI analysis publications at a charge of over 240,000 a year, and reproducibility crises apart, I ponder what number of of them are actually groundbreaking reasonably than chasing the subsequent incremental enchancment of one more non-standardized…
