In his latest post, Damir Kahvedžić of ProSearch discusses how his wife came face to face with GenAI hype and what it means for you!

In his post titled (wait for it!) Face to Face with GenAI Hype (available here), Damir discusses how “my wife came to me a couple of weeks ago needing to write a last-minute presentation for her work. She asked ‘Can we use CoPilot? I hear it can generate a presentation for me.’ ‘Sure’ I said ‘Your company has licensed it on your laptop. Enter a prompt and it will make slides in PowerPoint’. ‘Perfect!’ she said. ‘Let’s do that’. We ran to the laptop, typed in our prompts and CoPilot dutifully created the presentation and content. It was immediate and impressive. It had the correct length, perfect formatting, a beginning middle and end and no typos. It was perfect.”

Only it wasn’t perfect. “My wife hated it”, says Damir. “The content was generic, it was bland and not at all what she expected. ‘Where is the detail, it’s missing statistics!’ She said. The reality hit her that CoPilot helped her get started but she as a subject matter expert had to finish it. She ran head-first into Amara’s Law.”

What is Amara’s Law? It’s this: “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.”

So, how can we foster adoption of GenAI? How can we bridge the gap between the expectations of end users, like Damir’s wife, to the reality that AI service providers like ProSearch can provide? And where in the adoption process are we? Find out here, it’s just one click! Unlike AI, you know what to expect if you click! 😉

So, what do you think? Is the hype of GenAI far exceeding its capabilities? Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

Image created using Microsoft Designer, using the term “two robots looking at each other with one wearing a shirt that has the word ‘HYPE’ on it”.

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