One comment made me think for quite some time: “This is literally the Microsoft Copilot pitch.” First you have AI create a beautiful artifact in Powerpoint et. al., then you waste other people’s time, and they evade your move by letting AI boil it down to the essentials.
I have three exhibits from Apple to illustrate how AI is marketed to stupid and lazy people.
While enthusiasm for AI is high, actual usage among knowledge workers appears to remain low. Contrary to other research on adoption, our survey showed that while many want to embrace AI, we are still figuring out how to make it work in practice. So while trust and optimism towards AI is high, reflecting a general openness to new tools and ways of working, we’re not yet sure how to make AI work for, well, work.
This research resonates very well with my own thoughts. The key findings are presented in an easily digestible format.
Lots of bad news about the Metaverse. It has fallen from grace. Microsoft is cutting back on their hardware unit after having failed to deliver what they promised to the US military, Zuckerberg has after renaming his company Facebook to Meta and dumping billions of dollars into a bottomless pit, has shifted development resources to AI. Web3 has revealed itself what is is: another money grab by the crypto bros. Now Disney is closing its Metaverse department.
The photo at the top is not from the future. It’s from the past.
As is turns out, the future is not Metaverse. AI is the next big thing.
