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The twenty percent
Two weeks later and it still felt we were running in circles. Was there anything else to try? “Seriously, we’ve been at this for a long time already!” somebody shouted.
There’s so much we can’t do. Saying that twenty percent is embarrassing may be the understatement of the century. “How do we explain this?”
We needed a breakthrough, and we needed it quick, right when our well of ideas was running out faster than our funding.
You’ve read the articles and watched the movies. Artificial intelligence single-handedly turning industries on their belly, changing lives. The almighty power of something beyond our understanding reshaping everything we know.
There’s so much money fueling marketing campaigns that are a decade too early. There’s so much hype coming from those struggling to justify their billions in funding. The infinite race where everyone wants to be louder and aim higher. A race where we distort expectations and trivialize what just yesterday seemed impossible.
And that’s the real artificial part of all of it. Reality needs a lot more help to be newsworthy. Who’s waking up to read about the struggles, the pitfalls, the underwhelming state of the art? This is, in many ways, a dream we are enjoying before going to sleep.
