Generative AI has entered a “trough of disillusionment,” a pit stop on the maturity and adoption graph.
Machine learning could be argued that it remains the more impactful, more understood and safer form of AI.
Continued investment in generative AI gathers risk and is contingent on the satisfaction and continuing support of early adopters.
The technology retains a magnetic appeal for many investors, though it is grounded in an uncertain possibility.
Enterprise customers will retrench, confronted with the weak ROI of many use cases of generative AI, and rethink how technology can support business priorities.
Machine learning might be seen as a smaller, more precise tool that can be applied to core business challenges with a clearer line of sight to ROI.
Machine learning has been around for decades and is applied in a wide cross-section of industries.
The pent-up demand for AI that delivers tangible results may stimulate a resurgent interest in traditional forms of technology such as machine learning.
Training large language models will cost between $10 and $100 billion in the next three years.
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