Microsoft’s CEO, at this year’s World Economic Forum, warned that “we must ‘do something useful’ with AI or they’ll lose ‘social permission’ to burn electricity on it.” Amen. Yet, as the author of this article points out:
I also find automatic transcription tools useful, but if I were banking on general purpose LLMs being as revolutionary as personal computers and the internet, I’d find it worrying how many applications boil down to transcribing audio, summarizing text, and fetching code snippets.
Amen. Again.
