In early August, I wrote a piece called What if Generative AI turned out to be a Dud, picked up in the Financial Times and elsewhere.
I am not yet ready to claim victory. But as time goes on, I increasingly believe that call was correct. Some new facts have come to light, and the dud idea itself has become quite mainstream. Here’s a mention of it yesterday in The Wall Street Journal, ending with a mindblowing stat that doesn’t bode well: