https://www.anildash.com//2025/10/17/the-majority-ai-view/
“Even though AI has been the most-talked-about topic in tech for a few years
now, we're in an unusual situation where
the most common opinion about AI
within the tech industry is barely ever mentioned.
Most people who actually have technical roles within the tech industry, like
engineers, product managers, and others who actually make the technologies we
all use, are fluent in the latest technologies like LLMs. They aren't the big,
loud billionaires that usually get treated as the spokespeople for all of tech.
And what they all share is an extraordinary degree of consistency in their
feelings about AI, which can be pretty succinctly summed up:
Technologies like LLMs have utility, but the absurd way they've been
over-hyped, the fact they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on
ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on
legitimate uses where they might add value.
What's amazing is the reality that virtually
100% of tech experts I talk to
in the industry feel this way, yet nobody outside of that cohort will mention
this reality. What we all want is for people to just treat AI as a "normal
technology", as Arvind Naryanan and Sayash Kapoor so perfectly put it. I might
be a little more angry and a little less eloquent: stop being so goddamn creepy
and weird about the technology! It's just tech, everything doesn't have to
become some weird religion that you beat people over the head with, or gamble
the entire stock market on.”
Via Esther Schindler.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
