Bezos had this great analogy. Electricity was literally just piped into houses for light, that’s it, that was the whole pitch. Then it became the platform for basically everything: dishwashers, toasters, TVs, the entire modern world. Nobody wiring up those first homes was thinking about Netflix. He makes the same point about space. Right now rockets are “just” carrying satellites and keeping the ISS stocked, but the rocket is the platform, and we have no idea what’s coming. 3D-printing organs in microgravity? Manufacturing stuff that’s physically impossible to make on Earth? We’re so early. I think the exact same thing is happening with AI right now. These transformer models are essentially commodifying intelligence. You can turn knowledge on and off the same way you flip a light switch. Today it’s coding agents and research tools and chatbots, which is cool, but that’s the lightbulb moment. That’s electricity for light. What are the dishwashers and washing machines of AI going to be? The use cases nobody’s even thinking about yet. Every major platform follows this pattern, and we’re right at the beginning of this one. I’m super excited to see where it goes. submitted by /u/im-feeling-the-AGI
Originally posted by u/im-feeling-the-AGI on r/ArtificialInteligence