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December 19, 2025
Generative AI hype distracts us from AI’s more important breakthroughs
It's a seductive distraction from the advances in AI that are most likely to improve or even save your life
TL;DR
- Generative AI creates new content, while predictive AI identifies existing information to provide answers.
- Recent advances in generative AI, like AI chatbots and synthetic video, have captured public attention.
- Predictive AI has made significant, often unnoticed, improvements in areas like weather prediction, food safety, medical services, and navigation.
- Generative AI is more energy-intensive and raises concerns about intellectual property and job displacement compared to predictive AI.
- The author advocates for focusing on the practical applications and progress of predictive AI for more beneficial and sustainable AI development.
- Hybrid predictive-generative systems offer potential for real-time applications like voice cloning, but require strong predictive methods.
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