HACKER Q&A
📣 SMAAART

Is AI the next (current) dot-com era?


I am old enough to remember the dot-com era, and actually I worked at one of those high-flying innovative dot-com, while we didn't make it, technologically speaking we changed the world as we knew it for >10 years after that.

Anyway.

ChatCPT and other first gen AI-apps have surpassed all of my expectations, and this is just the beginning.

I feel like this is the beginning of a wave of innovation, with its ramification, just like we experienced in the dot-com era.

What does HN think?

  👤 version_five Accepted Answer ✓
More like crypto, with the hype peaking way higher and faster.

Dot com is so much more distributed and fundamental infrastructure. The chatbots that everyone think are heralding a new industrial revolution are really an extension on top of the web, not a whole new phase.

I remain amazed that something that so far boils down to an "enhanced bing search" is being treated with such blind enthusiasm

👤 celiktom
yes, there is definitely something in it. Bubbles happen when things become “over-invested” above their true value.