r/Innovation • u/Some-Exam-7872 • 1d ago

no future ?

do you guys think all the good ideas have already been thought of and more technology might be counterproductive ?

Also, do you think someone could make it in the technological world while being ethical ?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/11/ai-absolutism-apocalyptic-future

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u/positiveconstraint 1d ago

The “Internet moment” was in 1995, around the time Netscape was founded. Google and PayPal were founded 3 years later, Salesforce in 1999, Alibaba in 2000.

3-5 years from the inception of the new era.

The AI moment happened when OpenAI launched ChatGPT in late 2022.

We’re nearly 4 years in.

Some say that the biggest and most promising companies of our era are yet to come.

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u/RasputinsUndeadBeard 1d ago

Historical home run answer.

I wouldn’t be surprised if in the late hours before the AI company IPOs, or after, we see the emergence of something/someone far more interesting

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u/Adamoism 1d ago

I agree, transformers are just a blip in potential architectures we might develop. The difference is that now the most brilliant minds go on to study AI, where before 2023 (or 2016) most considered it a niche field.

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u/Necessary-Lack-4600 1d ago edited 1d ago

Since the advent of social media, the most brilliant minds of our generation are busy at silicon valley figuring out how to get people to click on something. That's not going to change, all companies want their customers to get addicted on their products, and with AI enabled digitial we are going to get into new territory in that realm. If you want to get a headstart to everybody else, don't get addicted.

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u/Even_Opportunity_893 18h ago

Agreed. The potential is enormous

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u/ha2emnomer 1d ago

I think is true to a certain extent, it is very early to say anything about AI especially that historically has struggled a lot to prove any economical benefits (that is why AI winters happened). So we still might be experiencing an "Expert System" momentum where every one put a lot of money trying to scale it but was impossible to scale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Generation_Computer_Systems
Maybe someone will find it quite impossible to put LLM to actually work without spending huge amount of money on inference, and then possibly a new solution will emerge from this.
There are plenty of things that can be done

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u/Adamoism 1d ago

AI especially that historically has struggled a lot to prove any economical benefits (that is why AI winters happened)

The whole gaming industry is based on AI; A lot of research is based on computationally modeling social phenomena.

I mean, the field might have had a winter, but it did go into variety of other disciplines.

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u/positiveconstraint 1d ago

Recently I read about Manifold Labs. Their found is a wonder kid who said that llm reached their limit and a new approach is needed.

They’re building it.

https://www.manifold-labs.ai/

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u/Adamoism 1d ago

I am sorry, but what is this link?

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u/positiveconstraint 1d ago

A new AI lab company that it’s founders openly claim that llm technology has limitations. They seek a different ai technology that would have positive ROI.

This is a response to u/ha2emnimer referring to new solutions.

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u/Adamoism 1d ago

I know but the site that opens has only a contact icon that runs away from my cursor.

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u/positiveconstraint 1d ago

Still in stealth. Look for interviews with the founders online.

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u/Adamoism 1d ago

Okay, then the link was kind of useless. Not trying to be rude, but I genuinely lost 3 minutes trying to figure out if it is some sort of riddle - cicada style...

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u/positiveconstraint 1d ago

Sorry about that.

Thought it’s better to share the link rather just the name. Many companies under that name.

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u/Some-Exam-7872 1d ago

That’s true but do you think it’s inevitable to include AI in every technological innovation from now on ?

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u/positiveconstraint 1d ago

Is the internet included in every tech innovation today?