Where has AI gone

Pranav Tiwari
2 min readMar 29, 2024

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Day 89 / 366

I think we are close to an AI winter now. The hype that was last year is finally settling down. Earlier we used to see 10 new products each day, and now there are hardly any new products. The products that do come out are just demos and announcements, which look good and impress the VCs but don’t add any value for the general public. What’s going on?

Firstly, I think both companies and users have realized that the AI models we have right now are really expensive to operate. This is why even if someone can build an amazing product, they can’t just go public with it because it's not something you can cheaply let people try out. Remember when GPT-4 came out, they had an hourly limit even for paid users.

SORA was announced by OpenAI a month and a half ago, and it's still not available for the general public to use. We have no idea how good it actually is and how much time it takes to generate a video. This is the case with most new models that are coming out as well. They all have a waitlist even if you want to pay and use them.

The other thing is that these models did not live up to the hype in terms of performance. I saw a post today about how people using Github Copilot are complaining that the responses are not as good as ChatGPT, and Microsoft responded by saying that the users are using it wrong. And AI-generated text content is shit. It is too easy to recognize and it is flooding the internet.

It’s not all bad though. Midjourney is doing really well. More and more people are adopting it and they are constantly adding new features. Most of the AI-generated images you see online come from Midjourney. Design firms are using it quite a lot to generate assets and as a replacement for stock images.

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Pranav Tiwari
Pranav Tiwari

Written by Pranav Tiwari

I write about life, happiness, work, mental health, and anything else that’s bothering me

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