It would be super cool if the tech media would simply stop credulously repeating every value-juicing statement C-Suites make like they’re the in-house PR department. The only difference between these hollow promises and the guy crying, “The end is near!” on the street corner is funding.
PARTICULARLY since “we’ll have it in a year and a half” means “okay we don’t have the training data or the model or all the chips we need yet. But oh boy lemme tell ya what we’re hoping for…”