Artificial Corner

Artificial Corner

Are we really in an AI bubble?

The AI hype has generated an inevitable fatigue, but this is a symptom that radical changes are about to happen.

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Kevin Gargate Osorio and Frank Andrade
Jan 31, 2024
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Year 1900, and 14 years had already passed since a man named Karl Benz made the first prototype of the car. Meanwhile, a few kilometers away, in the United States, there was Henry Ford, an entrepreneur who was looking for investors for his mechanical workshop. His purpose was to convince these businessmen of his idea about changing the world through automobiles. And of course, in those times, it was unthinkable to believe that the future was these vehicles, as they relied on at least two professional mechanics to operate (one of them at the wheel and the other watching the engine start). All this without mentioning that these vehicles didn’t have all the safety mechanisms we enjoy now like suspension and seat belts and that there were more than 700 car manufacturers, and many of these investors had already lost their savings betting on that same idea Ford was proposing.

If we were to go back to those times and live in the previous context, I know many of us would…

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