Is A.I. overhyped?
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These days, perhaps no phrase is on the tip of the business world’s collective tongue as much as “artificial intelligence.” With seemingly endless funding pouring into anything that remotely has to do with A.I., it was obviously time for the Good Work Investigative News Team to slap on their aftershave and get to the bottom of things.
For this investigation, we were pleased to be joined by Alex Konrad, Senior Editor at Forbes, Jason Abaluck, Professor of Economics at the Yale School of Management, and Kyla Scanlon, an independent educator, author, and creator.
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Is A.I. overhyped?
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I would unironically buy a Good Work dictionary of business terms edit - this vid has made me insecure about being a tatless weenie
@TCt83067695
6 ай бұрын
That edit needs some elaborating
@aaronwhite3119
Ай бұрын
Some of these definitions are funny.
I’m loving Toomey’s dedication to finding the ugliest NYC street backgrounds to stand in front of
@GoodWorkMB
10 ай бұрын
we don't have to go far
@Anu-po5ml
10 ай бұрын
@@GoodWorkMB😂😂
@Terrytechhead
10 ай бұрын
@@GoodWorkMB not with that attitude
@AaronMartinColby
10 ай бұрын
Hope he keeps an eye out for CHUDs.
@DigitalMadrigal
10 ай бұрын
Strongly concur. Please. Do. Always.
The fact that he is interviewing a senior editor of Forbes two weeks after doing a piece about the Forbes 30 under 30 is what we in the business call „based af“
@GoodWorkMB
10 ай бұрын
we thank Alex for crossing enemy lines to do this covert discussion with us
@TheManinBlack9054
10 ай бұрын
I mean it's kind of dumb too, that's like asking whether new RTX feature is overhyped and then asking a bartender, an accountant and a basketball referee, but not anyone who does anything related to games or graphics. I think it would have been better to ask AI researchers or people who cover AI professionally.
@hastyscorpion
10 ай бұрын
@@TheManinBlack9054the people who cover ai professionally are like , the absolute worst people to ask. They are literally the ones doing the hyping. That is like asking Mac Rumors if the iPhone is over hyped.
@TheManinBlack9054
10 ай бұрын
@@hastyscorpion so let's ask an accountant who have no idea the new iPhone have even come out? And with all due respect you are comparing science journals with a low-class, specifically hype-dedicated rumors magazine. In that case it would have been closer to compare it to something like MKBHD or Wired or The Verge. Now that would have been a fairer comparison, but what you have there is a very disingenuous comaprison. I think its important to listen to the experts first.
@ChatGTA345
10 ай бұрын
@@TheManinBlack9054 I agree, we should definitely take this topic very seriously and scientifically, there’s no room to ask for public opinion of the uneducated masses /s
Dan Toomey might just be the best investigative journalist on the block right now
@its_elkku135
10 ай бұрын
The most entertaining one at the very least
@handlemonium
10 ай бұрын
He IS the block right now! 👍
@yeetyeet7070
10 ай бұрын
on that block of NYC
@poundlandvodka
10 ай бұрын
and those blocks include some of the worst in Manhattan
@baronthered
10 ай бұрын
certainly in the neighborhood
Seeing venture capitalists throw millions upon millions of dollars at startups who are grossly overvalued simply because they make AI, reminds me a lot about Dotcom.
@TheManinBlack9054
10 ай бұрын
True, but there might be a few more amazons and paypals in there. Just a bet.
@aluisious
10 ай бұрын
VCs are dumb silver spoon bros. They don't understand anything about what they're betting on.
@splitprune
10 ай бұрын
@@TheManinBlack9054fucking hopefully not
@Dycell
10 ай бұрын
We’re still in’t…. Always have….
@BigmanBrook
10 ай бұрын
And Crypto... And Metaverse... And...
Overhyped? Allen Iverson was one of the greatest basketball players ever.
@cdw2468
10 ай бұрын
we talkin bout practice?
@AntonWongVideo
10 ай бұрын
Ain't even taking about the game
@riverdorfsee4324
10 ай бұрын
You won😂
@parvdize3968
3 ай бұрын
Fact
This channel, along with Dan Toomey, has very quickly become my absolute favorite. The analysis, the humor, and the delivery is just perfect.
@offmeds2nite
10 ай бұрын
Same
According to the GoodWork dictionary of business terms, the word “help” is defined as: “Something beta business weaklings call for when unable or incapable of completing work themselves.” I refuse to accept any other definitions. Thank you.
The connect 4 was the first thing I noticed in that shot, the joke absolutely folded me over 😂
“I *hate* nuance” well said
@JD-qq8fz
10 ай бұрын
Spoken like a true journalist
"AI can be both overhyped and properly hyped at the same time." A really high density statement on the topic that I've heard in a while.
It is kind of amazing how utterly non-comital and inherently speculative your economist expert's analysis was. He was the perfect personification of how hype culture is allowed to perpetuate, particularly by experts themselves. You asked him if a thing was, and his response..."maybe." Absolutely hilarious!
@TheManinBlack9054
10 ай бұрын
Sometimes its better to err on the side of caution then boldly proclaim something that you are not sure about. Life is full of nuance and things we do not yet know.
@alexanderthedude5474
10 ай бұрын
so true. the forbes guy had a way more thoughtful take and put his argument better. cracks me up
@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewic563
8 ай бұрын
Well, you see, these guys live and die by prestige. If they make an unambiguous affirmation, they could be proven wrong by the tides of time, and that one blunder could prove a tragedy for their reputation and career. It's better to answer "maybe" to any and all questions, and avoid being proven wrong and thus lose prestige.
@chesspiece4257
16 күн бұрын
@@alexanderthedude5474”yes and or no but. maybe” is equally noncommittal, just by committing to everything at the same time
in biotech it's kind of becoming a solution for all problem, whilst we still struggle to get enough data to actually implement these technologies
huge fan of what my hair was doing and literally no one told me
@MeTheOneth
10 ай бұрын
We just see the sick tats on your forearms.
The blurred Dunkin Donuts drink in the back is killing me. 😂
Can’t believe this channel isn’t bigger. God tier content
These videos are crack for my ADHD brain
@trimonmusic
10 ай бұрын
Agreed, and they pair well with the actual crack I also consume
i love the dedication put into these videos and the fact that this channel exists in the first place :)
Did you talk to a single engineer?
HuggingFace , maybe not actually worth the valuation, but is actually a good company that has been democraticizing language models since way before ChatGPT
@GoodWorkMB
10 ай бұрын
not saying it's not! but certainly there's hype to be found
I can't believe how consistently witty and clever these videos are
I like the detail of blurring out the brand of the cup. Good Work! 0:4:16
3:05 "Really likes Connect4" HAHAHA I AM WHEEZINGGGG
“Not everyone should be developing the same thing side by side” If we were standing in 1995, then absolutely every company had to make a website over the next 15 years. That being said, not all companies need to reinvent HTML. Companies should use AI not reinvent it, and I think 95% of companies will see direct benefit from integrating AI over the next decade.
@firewoodloki
10 ай бұрын
With the current chat AI, simply merging your knowledge base / customer service Q&A with AI will be beneficial. They are just Google search with normal speech input and output. Art AI are only good with brainstorming right now unless you can make them to work on your uploads, like adding Dan to your wedding photos. Voice AI is a huge threat as it enhance Deep Fake result and our legal system does not have the means to verify the video. General AI is not coming anytime soon.
@davidwuhrer6704
10 ай бұрын
We don't need HTML, we already have gopher. Wait, that doesn't work. Gopher is the protocol, so: We don't need HTTP. It can't do half the things Xanadu can do. And we don't need HTML either. ROFF can do much more, with a much simpler parser. Eh, who cares about Neuromancer-style 3D visualisations of hypertext relationships in gopherspace, who cares about backlinks, versioning, or clients which are also authoring tools, when instead you can have thin clients running in a virtual machine defined by a monopoly. The thing about AI is that as long as there is no AGI, you will need to keep reinventing AI, in the same way that you need to write new software for new applications. HTML was a single application: Writing and rendering hypertext. AI can be applied to lots of different things, and each type of application requires a different AI architecture. With AGI you still need to train custom models for your applications, and that is still tricky because different applications may still require different types of AGI. But at least you don't have to design them from the ground up. It's more like using an existing scripting language than designing a custom domain specific language. The actual application of AI, as it is, is in using the models. And that is not as straightforward as using a command in the shell. ChatGPT has absorbed a lot of knowledge, to the point that it can answer questions, sometimes even correctly, but it is not a search engine. For image synthesis and editing you need a completely different type of AI again. And that's just the most hyped models right now. There is also speech recognition, which is usable, but still far from solved. There is face recognition, which works fairly well. There is speech synthesis which used to be solved until people began using AI for it. There is also style transfer in pictures and in music. But what doesn't get talked about in all this hype is how AI has made gene sequencing possible. The human genome project would have been impossible without AI, and now it is being applied to the whole biosphere. It is also applied to the stock market, but that doesn't get talked about much either. There will always be more that can be done with AI. But the sobering truth is that AI has been with us and in practical use for decades. The current hype is about trying to find something, anything, that can be monopolised. But computers are universal machines: What one can do, anyone can do. Just like how every computer can serve web pages, share files, compile code, and deliver e-mail. Or mine bitcoins in the webasm sourced from GitHub by an indirect dependency of the bootstrap code of a thin client running in your Chrome-based browser.
@neociber24
10 ай бұрын
AI still no open for everyone, they will reinvent it until is democratic enough. People don't want corporations to hold it but others think id dangerous to allow everyyto have it, the truth is we don't know
@ishathakor
4 ай бұрын
but like.... not everyone needs ai??
@Weberbros1
4 ай бұрын
@@ishathakor Its pretty helpful for at least some task involved in almost every job. I bet that over the next 15 years then all computer based jobs will be more productive because of ai-powered software, as a direct result of the software being ai-powered.
I’m consistently surprised by how underrated this channel is. I wake up everyday hoping that Dan posts a new video
Dan is the 🐐 Also I hope you find a playdate
I've seen the last few videos you've made, you're going to hit million subs. You're improving at such a rapid pace and it's awesome to see
i dont comment much on here but your videos are SO UNDERRATED!! great production, i love the diverse opinions presented and your jokes make me giggle!! just wanted to comment to thank you
Came for the jokes, stayed for the economic analysis. Good work.
A.I. deez nutz lmaoo
@GoodWorkMB
10 ай бұрын
ok that was good
@rayraywa
10 ай бұрын
Gottem
Would've liked to see you interview a computer scientist when talking to the expert. But I'm glad you didn't interview an "AI expert" (whatever that means) considering they'd probably have a billion dollars riding on whatever they say. As a nerd (and comp sci grad) myself, I think Stephen Wolfram's take on AI is the best. Revolutionary? Maybe. A new and helpful tool like Google was? Yes. And yea, I think AI is overhyped even before software developers. It's very similar to crypto. Eventually, it *could* be pretty revolutionary but for now it's just ripe for making some fat stacks.
@TheManinBlack9054
10 ай бұрын
So far many of the AI experts that i have seen were very much honest and direct, such as people from MLST or Rob Miles or Bengio and so on and so on. if you dont trust them ask someone from academia. Listen to the experts first. I think the importance of AI and its revoltuonary potential that is already starting to show is much more than crypto's, so its more like underhyped really.
@aluisious
10 ай бұрын
An AI expert would be a PhD in machine learning working at Microsoft. It's not Marc Andressen, he's an expert on having money.
@aluisious
10 ай бұрын
@@TheManinBlack9054 cryptocurrency obviously had zero importance from the beginning. It's just fake money.
@TheManinBlack9054
10 ай бұрын
@@weird-guy why is AI art horrible and how is it uncanny?
@ttt5205
9 ай бұрын
@@TheManinBlack9054because it extorts value from artists without their permission or compensating them. There is also the fact that having a medium mainly done for the sake of human expression being replaced by mass producing machines, is also pretty dystopian.
Keep doing the good work!
Good video, and always love seeing Kyla Scanlon pop up!
Great work on the presentation! 😊🙏
th blooper reel was brilliant. Great stuff!
I miss the yellow descriptions of the guest and Dan. Sure, there were two instances but would love more! Great video though 👌
If you even need to ask, the answer is always YES Also quite sad that they'd rather buy into hype than actually SOLVE PROBLEMS if they're so flush with that greenback!
@TheManinBlack9054
10 ай бұрын
I mean, it's usually the opposite way, lol. If there's a question in the title of the video then the answer is no.
@SimGunther
10 ай бұрын
@@TheManinBlack9054Glad you're here to teach us about nuance in a world built to destroy rhetoric 😊
@effexon
10 ай бұрын
> do you have money? YES > invest in AI why? > YES. :D
@Patrickstarrrrr69
9 ай бұрын
@@effexon Reminds me of finance bros back in 2020-21 trying to convince all their friends to buy bitcoin
@effexon
9 ай бұрын
@@Patrickstarrrrr69they still are.... gold and silver are other evergreens :P
Favorite part: Jason Abaluck really likes Connect 4. Dan Tooley trying not to mention the Connect 4 thing 😅
keep em coming this channel is gold
U had Kyla come on the show?! WOW DAYM
I work at an autobody shop and we're starting to see preliminary estimates being written by insurance AI...The estimates they shit out are absolutely terrible, making mistakes not even a complete noob would make
First seen ur vid in Mike's stream now a fan! Keep it up bro!
Your scenery composition never disappoints LMAO. Love your page.
THIS CHANNEL FEEL'S NOSTALGIC, THE WAY IT USED TO BE THIS GUY DOES IT ALL THANKS TOOMEY
Love the editing 🤩
Man this is 🎉🎉🎉. Seriously good work brother.
love your theme man!
Love Kyla's work!
New Sub! I love your channel. Keep up the good work lol🤩
These videos are awesome!!!
can you please do a video regarding Investment Banking? Thanks. Love your videos
Giving you a like before I've even watched the video. Good work!
@GoodWorkMB
10 ай бұрын
thank you for supporting journalism
thanks mike form pa for this wicked video
hugging face is not a random AI startup
I like to remember Dot Com Bubble. Even with a technology as inarguably significant as the internet, it's still possible to get too hyped too early and blow a ton of money.
Alex Konrad the Senior Editor at Forbes managazine carrying this show again.....love you
As a software engineer who did his thesis on AI, yes it is so overhyped. Journos can't be more dramatic even if they tried!
@MasalaMan
10 ай бұрын
The first thing I learnt from one of my teachers was that computers will only ever do what you tell them to do no matter how 'smart' they become.
@firewoodloki
10 ай бұрын
Journalists are just business funded by venture capitals, that's why.
@phantasMoon69
10 ай бұрын
@@MasalaMan yes, that's basically it
@luisleal4169
10 ай бұрын
As a person who works in AI (AI engineer) I agree with you haha
@TheManinBlack9054
10 ай бұрын
@@MasalaMan well, you learned wrong i guess. AI is not just your average calculator program
This guy show outstanding dedication to every video.
this channel needs more attention
Hi Good work, you mentioned you are from Mass. I was wondering, are you from the south shore? You strike me as a south shore fellow. Anyway, love the vids, very funny, keep it up.
as a data scientist, i thoroughly enjoyed this and am definitely going for a career change soon 😂
@iceman7179
10 ай бұрын
change to what? And why change?
@Pawnlust
10 ай бұрын
@@iceman7179 It might be a joke.
I love your videos, keep it up
The only problem I have with this video is the journalist they decided to interview for this. Forbes has a pretty terrible track record when it comes to business topics.
@chrismathewsjr
10 ай бұрын
i think it's instructive to see charlatans in action
@user-dj9du6or1n
10 ай бұрын
> Video about a new technology > No insight from specialist in said technology They didn't even try, well at least the economic side of things was dealt with
@snarf1504
10 ай бұрын
You almost got the joke lol
@TheManinBlack9054
10 ай бұрын
@@snarf1504 what joke? The joke that he is misnforming people by asking the people who know nothing about the topic?
@snarf1504
10 ай бұрын
@@TheManinBlack9054 Exactly, this is a comedy channel 🤣
0:00-0:06 Just a banger intro, immediately hooked.
Next video idea: Are The Hollywood Executives Overpaid?
Please do a video about why the financial year had to be “different” by starting/ending in the middle of the actual year. Actually a video about why accountants are generally out of touch with being a human would be nice too
Also remember that 99.9% of people who have an opinion on this don't understand what they are talking about. Even the people who built the AI don't entirely understand it yet.
I am so glad to have chanced upon this channel. It’s hilarious 😅😅😅
How do you find all these beautiful locations?
keep up the good work
Good content Friday😁
You trying not to mention the connect four thing to the Yale professor made me laugh my ass off😂
Who did the direction for this? It's awesome !!😂
0:47 great dictionary
Love that Cramer jab at the end 😂
would have liked to see interviews with experts on the computer science side of things instead of journalists and economists who don't ultimately understand the technology or ethics. usually love these kinds of videos but this one falls really flat for me.
the hype around AI just reminds me of when everyone kept talking about the metaverse like a year ago
@saltandpeppers8788
9 ай бұрын
This is such a good point!
@Patrickstarrrrr69
9 ай бұрын
Lol exactly. "It's going to change the world forever, bro!"
@TheThreatenedSwan
8 ай бұрын
Except adoption of AI has the numbers the metaverse never had. It's popular, it actually does stuff people want, and it has a low barrier to entry.
@Somerled_Pox
8 ай бұрын
Everybody got a piece to say but no one watches the video or wants to hear what is being said
I have been waiting.
upvoted because Kyla Scanlon makes a really good point about how VCs overhype an otherwise hype-worthy technology.
The connect4 bit is soo good😂😂
This channel is so underrated
Should talk to an AI expert. Likely true that none of these people know anything meaningful about AI beyond the hype.
@chesspiece4257
16 күн бұрын
it’s an AI experts job to hype up AI, tho. if AI is overhyped then their career is at risk
here for Kyla!
Feel like we need a Brooks Brothers case study
So you made a video where you consulted experts but didn’t bring on a single software engineer that focuses on the actual creation of AI?
A masterpiece of investigative journalism
I read the book "A random walk down wall street". The book mentions the different types of booms that happen in history. Electronics Boom 1960s --> 1970s The Nifty Fifty a.k.a tech companies --> 1980s Biotech boom --> Dot Com Boom 1990s --> 2010 crypto boom --> 2020s AI. What boom/hype do you think will happen next?
Do I remember to come back to this
We need a cameo in Tomkins Square Park.
4:24 the censored drink 😭
The only news channel i wanna watch
That connect 4 set was sick tho
It is definitely over-hyped by the corporations. They spend hundreds of billions of $$ and agree to regulations because they just want to party a little! 👯
New viewer, I can already say you're killing the "great places on the side of the street to talk into a mic" game
I am here because Bricky mentioned you. and god am I glad I am here.
really likes connect four
6:45 genuinely thought you were going to say “bring out the dancing lobsters” 🦞
this is peak good work until next week when we reach new heights
So much setup with the Connect4 and no payback! It's making me as mad as Game of Thrones! (no not really, can't beat that one) good work_
Can't wait for the GoodWork_ Dictionary of Business Terms paperback edition.