About 90% of tech startups fail. It happens all the time because it’s in the nature of innovation.
Here anything about AI is received negatively so a 5% success rate is the “demonstration” that it’s a bubble. I’m sorry if you hope so, but it’s not. 5% is not far away from the normal failure rate of new companies and here we are talking about early adopters who buy a lottery ticket trying to be the first that makes it work.
Feel free to believe the contrary. I don’t need to convince an anonymous guy on internet.
Like any technology before it, now we are beyond the hype in the area where lots of clueless people expects miracles and complain about the number of Rs in strawberry.
In one year or two it will be a regular tool like any other.
5% to me sounds excellent. Companies fail all the time with well established technologies and nobody should expect great results with something still so new. It’s a bet with high risks and high rewards: most people will simply fail.
I never said it wasn't a successful service. I'm only genuinely surprised that so many people pay for what I personally consider marginal improvements. Also thanks for being the usual internet jerk ready to snap at any comment he doesn't like: now I have an idea of who may pay for that subscription.
Debating online is as important as doing the rest of the things you say are “real” worthwhile pursuits.
I love debating because, with time, I became aware of angles I had missed. However, I stop when the other side embraces extremist, black&white, and childish positions. "Fuck the system" works when you are a teenager or listening to punk rock, but otherwise it is just ridiculous.
For instance: How can we pursue a cure for cancer if the political climate ensures scientists are scorned and distrusted?
You can't. However, you also can't if you are not 100% in the system and aligned. Anything requiring funding or permits most likely becomes harder the less aligned you are since you'd clash with politics, you'd never meet people with money, you'd become a liability, and so on.
I'm all in to go to protests, to vote with my wallet, and to preach my values. I'm also conscious of the negligible impact that I will have since large organized movements can barely move the needle, and that there are so many other ways to change the world.
So what?