commented:
The idea that “AI will go away just like blockchain” is so telling,
since blockchain hasn’t gone anywhere…

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since blockchain hasn’t gone anywhere…

Depending on whether or not your glass if half-full or half-empty that
statement could be read two ways. IMO, the problem with blockchain is
exactly that - it hasn’t gone anywhere. Advocates, since the
beginning, have sworn that it was revolutionary and would change all
these things. Very little has changed as far as I can tell.
On the flip side, though, you’re right. Blockchain hasn’t died like
its critics have claimed it would either.

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I can’t tell if the author is confused or just wrote a confusing
sentence, but, just like blockchain, of course AI isn’t going to “go
anywhere”. It’s a bubble, and it will burst, but that just means that
there will be less investment in it. It’s still going to be developed,
especially because people are finding easier and more available
methods to create it, and the hardware is only getting better in turn.
Outside of that, AI has already well established itself as a useful
tool in some select areas, like being a fancy code autocomplete. May
as well go back to the 60s and say compilers are going to die and
we’ll all go back to writing glorious assembly language. (Disclaimer:
Although this makes me sound like an AI proponent, I do not in any way
use AI code assistants and have no interest in doing so.)

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It kind of has in the sense that it isn’t at the forefront, or the
selling point of, every single new or “trying-to-stay-relevant”
company anymore. Which AI seems to be now.

  commented:
Maintaining a diverse set of high quality building blocks is no small
task. Open source is a method to achieve this task by distributing it
among the most interested parties. Alternatives like third-party sets
of commercially available components tend to be much more limited in
scope and pose too many constrains on the application design.
Essentially we still don’t have a better way to solve the problem, so
open source is not going anywhere.

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End of one EU initiative shouldn’t be taken as a sign of anything.
IIRC it was €27M which is a drop in a bucket compared to the scale of
the software industry, and existence of OSS doesn’t even depend on
grants.

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