AI Horseless Carriages
Importance: 5 | # | ai-tools, build
Whenever a new technology is invented, the first tools built with it inevitably fail because they mimic the old way of doing things. “Horseless carriage” refers to the early motor car designs that borrowed heavily from the horse-drawn carriages that preceded them. Here’s an example of an 1803 Steam Carriage design I found on Wikipedia:
This is what AI's "killer app" will look like for many of us: teaching a computer how to do things that we don't like doing so that we can spend our time on things we do.