[epups]

The problem with your premise is that you're already drawing conclusions about the potential of AI and deciding it is hype. Perhaps decades ago someone could have equally criticised "Internet hype" and "mobile hype" and look foolish now.

[soco]

Also decades ago someone criticised "bigdata hype" and "microservices hype" and looks right now. Doing things just out of FOMO is rarely a good business decision. It can pay out, even a broken clock is right twice a day, but it's definitely bad to follow every new thing just because Gartner mentioned it. I'm not giving advice of course, but having seen enterprises betting good money even on NFT I tend to treat every new enterprise powerpoint idea with a certain dose of skepticism.

[pixl97]

Business can work on more than one thing at once. Businesses typically take any number of risks they invest in. Proper risk management ensures you've not over committed assets to the point of an unrecoverable loss.

Some businesses in some industries can follow a strategy of "never do anything until it's a well established process", others cannot.

[epups]

Yes, hype exists and some things we thought were promising turned out not to be. However, if anyone is making the case that we know enough today to claim that AI is mostly hype, I think that's foolish.

[phillipcarter]

Given the adoption of microservices and tech like kubernetes, I’d say you’re pretty wrong in judging that one.