Silicon Valley has shifted into its A.I. age and the signs are everywhere. The tech has become harder, the perks are fewer and the mood has turned more serious.
Goodbye to the age of consumer websites and mobile apps. Artificial intelligence has ushered in an era of what insiders in the nation’s innovation capital call “hard tech.”
I don’t think it’s making people’s lives better, is it? There’s so much potential in technology development and smart people who get it, but yet, the focus of how it’s been advanced is odd.
Without all those human tech providers, maybe the bay area will finally get affordable housing.
This is a bit dramatic. The tech is "hard" if you're making GPUs or working on foundation models. Silicon Valley is still for of wrapper startups.
Software and ads are still going to pay majority of the bills.
That's some kinda muscle AI's got for a bunch of Webscraping + Hype on your cellphone.
In other news, @nytimes.com has shifted into its age of appeasement.
This change had been coming and env ripe for it over a decade. Happy apps replaced Internet pioneers like Sun Microsystems. AI is coming for the app universe. No wonder they are tossing out $2million comp packages to AI scientists.
