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sc94597 on 05 March 2024
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OdinHades said:

For quite some time, everything will have "AI" in some form or another.You can already see countless companies announcing "something something AI" left and right, even though their products often don't even need AI to achieve what they are supposed to do. It reminds me of the Bitcoin hype in the last decade and the infamous example of Long Island Blockhain. Everything had to be blockchain back then.

That doesn't mean that AI is only a fad. Blockchain came to stay after all plus you can't really compare those two technologies. What you can compare though is people getting crazy about the next hype. And same as with blockchain, most people don't even understand how the technology behind AI works. So it's enough to throw some keywords around to get people excited. Because of that, I am pretty sure Sony and Microsoft will heavily market their next platforms with AI. But I don't think it will change much in reality. Same as with "the power of the cloud" back in the last decade, when the cloud was all the rage. They played a little with that tech, but we still play more or less the same games as we always did, don't we?

The biggest difference between blockchain and deep learning is that blockchain was a solution trying to find a clear problem to prove itself, whereas deep learning developed to solve multiple independent problems (text summarization, translation, text labeling, image classification, image generation, protein-folding, etc) and has done so successfully for most of them.

That is why deep-learning isn't the same category of fad as blockchain, even if it is probably being overapplied for applications that don't require it right now. 

Nvidia is highly invested in deep learning enhanced graphics and for better or worse they're pushing the video game industry graphically. Cloud gaming didn't have the same sort of effort behind it and had far more direct technical/infrastructural problems to solve.

Last edited by sc94597 - on 05 March 2024