I was interviewed for the ING Sector; a quarterly magazine for corporate Netherlands, on (generative) AI. In it, I express my cautious skepticism around enterprise generative AI applications, with the quote:
we have not yet seen the big killer application of generative AI
My 2 cts: While startups, cloud providers, and consultants have been tumbling over each other for the past 2+ years trying to find (or sell) the next big killer generative AI app, we still havenβt seen it. We can effectively leverage LLMs for a variety of natural language tasks (such as information extraction), content representation (for downstream tasks), and many other useful-but-fringe use-cases.
These are all valid, but merely incremental (and in some cases, inferior, and in many cases, much more expensive) approaches over βtraditionalβ machine learning.
The real value of LLMs and #genAI will lie in supporting us in our daily (textual; information access-related) tasks. Roll on, slope of enlightenment!
Read the full article (in Dutch) here.
