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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/obvithrowaway34434 on 2024-01-19 04:32:54+00:00.
This may end up in one of those subreddits that highlight irony and end up heavily downvoted here, but I'll take the risk.
Inspite of all the hype past year, we only have two actually useful products: ChatGPT and Bard (debatable how useful it is). Midjourney is impressive but I'm not aware of anyone using it professionally. Everything else is either pure entertainment (character AI for e.g.), some cherry-picked demo/paper, a thin OpenAI wrapper or just a big press announcement about how many H100s is being acquired with the promise of AGI (most recent example being Meta). I cannot think of any other single useful product that has come out of this, that has been useful to people outside of AI research. This is crazy to me since there are so many low hanging fruits, I thought big companies will tackle like a capable voice assistant, better autocorrect in phones, better handwriting recognition (including equations), text to speech and so many others that don't require AGI or anything even near GPT-4 level compute.
I'd love to be shown counterexamples and be proven wrong, but I honestly feel we're heading towards a big burst and a reality check. Undoubtedly AI will continue to progress and will change the world, but the unnecessary hype really needs to die, or it will create a lot of problems such as mass panic and overregulation which will have harmful consequences.