AI in everything?

I’ve been reading a lot of pitch decks and watching a lot of pitches from companies in the generative AI space. A big part of this is obviously looking for some great investment opportunities, but perhaps even more important is myself learning and keeping up with the latest AI trends.

There’s a lot of great projects out there, but I can’t help but feel that this feels like the blockchain overhype all over again. Just like when startups were putting stuff on the blockchain just to put stuff on the blockchain, a lot of startups today are adding “AI” to their startup just to say it’s there.

Of course, I am a believer that AI will be in every company in some way shape of form. But I fear that a lot of companies are losing sight of their main product in order just to call themselves an AI company. Everything does not need to be on the blockchain. Nor does everything need to be an AI company.