Navneet Alang

Fanciful ideas emerged during the pandemic, about a four-day work week, and about reimagining our lives. Reality is setting in.

Fanciful ideas emerged during the pandemic, about a four-day work week, and about reimagining our lives. Reality is setting in.

Fanciful ideas emerged during the pandemic, about a four-day work week, and about reimagining our lives. Reality is setting in.

The chorus is building up about AI not living up to its hype – atleast the use cases not yet being commensurate to the hundreds of billions invested in GPU capacity by the hyperscalers – Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta. The comparison with the internet boom of the late 90s (and the eventual bust) seem to be uncanny i.e, the world didn't take to the internet as quickly as was envisioned or atleast as implied by the soaring stock prices. But just as today we can't imagine a world without the internet, it is very likely that AI will become mainstream one day but not before an inevitable dose of rationality typically associated with hype cycles. This article though, talks about a different AI related hype – the one that says AI will takeover the world. In this brilliant and well-balanced essay, Navneet brings out all that AI can achieve and where it is likely to fall short. For those interested in the topic, the whole piece is worth a read. Some excerpts below.

If working remotely during the pandemic taught us anything, writes Navneet Alang, it's that sometimes work can change for the better.

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