As 2024 comes to a close, I’ve been thinking about how AI has impacted us this year. We’ve seen advancements like improved voice models, better video generation, some reasoning in LLMs, and even a bit of agent-like behavior.
For me, the biggest change has been how ChatGPT helps me find answers quickly. I feel more productive at work now since I spend less time googling or researching. But honestly, I thought AI would impact projects and workflows more by now. Most of what I’ve seen are tools that help others create things, like Cursor for example, but nothing groundbreaking yet. Plus, there’s a lot of low-quality content on social media, often with ads promoting SaaS tools to help you make your own content. Is it too early for real practical uses, or am I missing something?
I’ve been in AI for over ten years (even did my PhD in it), and while 2024’s progress is impressive, I agree the impact feels more gradual than dramatic. However, I think you’re overlooking some important developments.
Apart from just getting answers faster, AI is really changing workflows. For instance, at Jenova AI, we see users applying AI to tasks like analyzing codebases, processing research papers, and managing multilingual communications – all things that used to be tedious and manual.
The ‘wrapper’ tools you mentioned are important. They’re helping us figure out how humans best interact with AI and what real-world problems matter most. This phase is key before we start seeing those more advanced applications you’re waiting for.
The big breakthrough will come when AI can truly understand context and connect multiple capabilities in meaningful ways. We’re just starting to scratch the surface.
The flood of low-quality AI content is just a phase. As the market matures, the noise will die down, and we’ll start seeing the real value of AI. Keep focusing on the positive side and ignore the distractions.
It’s still early, I don’t know if you remember the MS DOS days, but that’s where we are now. We’re getting close to something like Windows 1.0, and from there, things will move faster. Give it a year or two and you’ll start seeing some serious tools and uses.
This is such a thoughtful post! Yes, AI should be used to help and improve the lives of humans. People with a forward-thinking mindset will do well as they adapt to AI’s evolution. That’s exactly what we are aiming for at the Peoples Initiative: helping everyday people integrate AI in ways that support us instead of replacing us.
Most of what I’ve seen with AI are simple projections or basic uses of LLMs. Big companies are doing a lot of research in this area and trying to find real-world applications. And I’m not just talking about the well-known players in the AI space.
I work at a major tech company (not Microsoft or OpenAI) and there’s a lot of research happening behind the scenes.
Video tech has been fun this year, but most demos are just toys for now. We’re in the ‘eye candy’ phase, but things will change. I’m still waiting for that one big AI news story where someone uses AI in a truly practical way that everyone notices. I’m talking about a real use case that goes beyond just creating a 10-second video of you flying around like Superman. Who cares?
The real game-changing use cases will come soon – I’m hopeful for 2025.
I’d love to see a story where small businesses use open-source models trained on their own business data and achieve amazing results. When that happens, things will start to change. I just hope it’s not just big corporations like IBM or Microsoft providing these expensive models to small businesses. Open-source AI is the way forward, and it needs to be accessible to everyone, regardless of budget.
I agree. The technology around delivery still hasn’t caught up. While machine learning has been around for a long time, we still need to build the systems around these models to allow them to process data effectively. Without platforms like the one ChatGPT runs on, these tools wouldn’t be very useful to most people. The same applies to AI agents; they need platforms to work in so people can interact with them. This is where the real work is happening right now, and it’s adding strain to infrastructure, so it’s going to take time.
Zorion said:
You’re missing out if you haven’t looked into AI agents. They can even run an SEO company or create blogs on their own. We’re just getting started.
Do you have examples of good automatic blogs? Everything I’ve seen so far has been poor quality. Some of them are just run by humans who create a lot of content, which is still impressive.