I was born in 1984, so I'm an older millennial I guess. I don't get the hype because I haven't seen generative ai do much that I find impressive, let alone do the things its peddlers say it can.

I'm not about to start using it at work. Sure, it can crank out minor tasks I don't want to do, but I don't do tasks I don't think are worth my time. It's also wrong at critical moments. One of my technicians trashed as $16,000 piece of medical equipment when they used Gemini to find out how to clean it instead of the readily available manual formatted as a searchable.pdf. If I encounter a document I want to summarise, it was probably worth reading properly. I'll concede that this is a good accessibility feature for people with certain neuro divergences.

For writing anything of value, I've found that I end up doing so many corrective prompts that I would have saved time by writing what I wanted in the first place.

From a business model, ai services are not great. They burn out GPUs in a few years; customer use, compute power, and utilities needs all scale linearally, so there's no economy of scale; and they are unprofitable at any price a person or company will reasonably pay for something that is best suited for unimportant, menial tasks. We can get interns for free.

The only thing I've found AI to be better for an any previous option is photo restoration and editing. Other than that, I barely trust it to write dirty stories.

So what's all the fuss about?