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The Winds of AI Winter

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The vibes have shifted. This is still not a normal moment in AI1, and we can’t precisely determine how or why, but they have shifted. In Jan 2024 we (lightly) commented that the AI world order had been stagnant for a long time, but in the past 3 months, the cracks in that world order started to show: “We went from 100% gpt4 usage to almost 0% in the last 3 months”. “I've switched to Claude completely. Better task clarification, more consistent output, and improved error handling. OpenAI isn't on par anymore.” More and more people canceling ChatGPT subscriptions (part of the Unbundling of ChatGPT) Google AI Overviews being bad, bad, bad, bad (after the Gemini mess) Microsoft announcing and cancelling Recall, Figma announcing and cancelling AI, McDonald’s testing and canceling Drive-thru AI (this follows Discord announcing and cancelling Clyde last winter) Inflection Pi 2.5 claiming 94% of GPT4 then non-acquihiring to Microsoft Adept claiming (on our podcast) that they are “completely so

The Winds of AI Winter Mar-Jun 2024 Recap: People are raising doubts about AI Summer. Why AI Engineers are the solution. Jul 22, 2024 44 2 3 Share For a podcast-length discussion of various news items, tune in to the Audio version . The vibes have shifted . This is still not a normal moment in AI 1 , and we can’t precisely determine how or why, but they have shifted. In Jan 2024 we (lightly) commented that the AI world order had been stagnant for a long time, but in the past 3 months, the cracks in that world order started to show : “ We went from 100% gpt4 usage to almost 0% in the last 3 mon

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