| > Not one killer app has emerged. I mentioned the Stack Overflow Developer Survey once already today, but at the risk of sounding like a broken record, it has some data on this as well: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#ai To save someone a click, around 44% of the respondents (some 39k out of 89k people) are already using "AI" solutions as a part of their workflow, another 25% (close to 23k people) are planning to do so soon. The sentiment also seems mostly favorable, most aim to increase productivity or help themselves with learning and just generally knock out some more code, though there is a disconnect between what people want to use AI for (basically everything) and what they currently use it for (mostly just code). There's also a section on the AI search tools in particular, about 83% of the respondents have at least had a look at ChatGPT, which is about as close to a killer app as you can probably get, even if it's cloud based SaaS: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-most-popular-t... > Where are we in the hype cycle on this? I'm not sure about the specifics here, but the trend feels about as significant as Docker and other container technologies more or less taking the industry by storm and changing a bunch of stuff around (to the point where most of my server software is containers). That said, we're probably still somewhere in the early stages of the hype cycle for AI (the drawbacks like hallucination will really become apparent to many in the following years). Honestly, the technology itself seems promising for select use cases and it's still nice that we have models that can be self hosted and somehow the software has gotten decent enough that you can play around with reasonably small models on your machine even without a GPU: https://blog.kronis.dev/tutorials/self-hosting-an-ai-llm-cha... I'm cautiously optimistic about the current forms of LLM/AI, but fear that humanity will misuse the tech (as a cost cutting measure sometimes, without proper human review). |