I Asked ChatGPT to Solve an 800-Year-Old Italian Mystery. What Happened Surprised Me.

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4. Is that like fusion power?

In 20 years!!!! Breakthroughs are just around the corner!!! I've lived through two of those 20 year cycles since I hit the workforce full time, and billions of dollars later still no viable fusion power plants and nothing on the horizon. Perhaps not a perfect analogy, but generally speaking, perhaps it is.

In my mind, AI will prove a useful tool, but just another tool, and the wild claims will never come to fruition because they never, ever do. Paperless office anyone? Flying cars! That's not being a Luddite. That's being observant and practical, looking at both the promise and the challenges. This crazed "build out" the last few years may very well prove to be the greatest waste of capital resources in human history. They've yet to prove that anyone will pay serious money for it or that it will save serious money. End of the day, that's the measuring stick.