I think that I can give some clarity here: it is a use case / user story issue combined with frog in the increasingly hot water.
I have seen AI do amazing things for other people. In my own use case, it is below not useful and into actively harmful: using AI makes my output worse in every situation. If I did not have access to other people’s use cases, I too would be unimpressed. And when people in my fields (mostly government) try to use AI and it fails, they are updating their priors about every attempted tech rollout in the past 20 years making things worse not better. So they see videos and articles about AI working and they are reinforcing “media is over hyping something that will get used in other fields but not ours again, just like the ‘paperless’ revolution that gave us twice as much work and yet we still use typewriters and faxes”.
By contrast, you are exposed to the areas where it is working. You understand the context of what those changes mean and how important they are, and how they are accelerating.
The exact same news is updating you in the direction of “this is amazing and fast” and them on “this is the same b.s. we’ve seen a dozen times and never amounts to anything real”.
At some point, it will hit their field in a way they feel is a big improvement (not a miniscule increase in temperature style improvement), and they will be completely shocked and not understand how they got where they are.
I have tried to explain to the ones I work with and I can watch them mentally moving me away from “trusted expert on technology” over to “cultlike evangelist of vaporware” as I speak.
I think that I can give some clarity here: it is a use case / user story issue combined with frog in the increasingly hot water.
I have seen AI do amazing things for other people. In my own use case, it is below not useful and into actively harmful: using AI makes my output worse in every situation. If I did not have access to other people’s use cases, I too would be unimpressed. And when people in my fields (mostly government) try to use AI and it fails, they are updating their priors about every attempted tech rollout in the past 20 years making things worse not better. So they see videos and articles about AI working and they are reinforcing “media is over hyping something that will get used in other fields but not ours again, just like the ‘paperless’ revolution that gave us twice as much work and yet we still use typewriters and faxes”.
By contrast, you are exposed to the areas where it is working. You understand the context of what those changes mean and how important they are, and how they are accelerating.
The exact same news is updating you in the direction of “this is amazing and fast” and them on “this is the same b.s. we’ve seen a dozen times and never amounts to anything real”.
At some point, it will hit their field in a way they feel is a big improvement (not a miniscule increase in temperature style improvement), and they will be completely shocked and not understand how they got where they are.
I have tried to explain to the ones I work with and I can watch them mentally moving me away from “trusted expert on technology” over to “cultlike evangelist of vaporware” as I speak.