> these huge GenAI models are pretty good at things
Is this the sales pitch though? Because 15 years ago, I had a scanner with an app that can scan a text document and produce the text on Windows. The machine had something like 256Mb of RAM.
Tech can be extremely good at niches in isolation. You can have an OCR system 10 years ago and it'll be extremely reliable at the single task it's configured to do.
AI is supposed to bring a new paradigm, where the tech is not limited to the specific niche the developers have scoped it to. However, if it reliably fails to detect simple things a regular person should not get wrong, then the whole value proposition is kicked out of the window.
Is this the sales pitch though? Because 15 years ago, I had a scanner with an app that can scan a text document and produce the text on Windows. The machine had something like 256Mb of RAM.
Tech can be extremely good at niches in isolation. You can have an OCR system 10 years ago and it'll be extremely reliable at the single task it's configured to do.
AI is supposed to bring a new paradigm, where the tech is not limited to the specific niche the developers have scoped it to. However, if it reliably fails to detect simple things a regular person should not get wrong, then the whole value proposition is kicked out of the window.