What Crypto Can Teach Us About A.I. Hype
There was a moment in time, a brilliant spark. Citizens around the world sat on the edge of their seats with bated breath. Proclamations were made. The end of capitalism, of the global financial system, was nigh. Goodbye wealth inequality. Sayonara wage suppression. Anyone would be able to mine their money in their sleep. Cryptocurrency. And then the spark fizzled. Some things changed. Not very much.
Today, cryptocurrency is estimated to represent around .023% of the world’s money. The global financial system still works. Crypto is largely seen, in no small part thanks to actors like Sam Bankman-Fried and others, as a 21st century pyramid scheme. It was a tech world hype machine.
While the Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) industry is not a pyramid scheme and can actually be of enormous benefit to business and humanity, the current hype could end up stalling progress rather than advancing it. The A.I. industry could learn some lessons from the crypto bro’s hype and other technology hype, like Theranos.
How The Artificial Intelligence Industry is Hurting Itself
The obvious answer is over promising and under delivering. A fast track to disillusionment and disappointment. But all the hype, the grandstanding, chest thumping cacophony of self-proclaimed “experts” with…
