A.I. Not Advanced Yet #shorts

23 Apr 2023 · 1 min

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In this YouTube short, the speaker argues that current AI tools are overhyped, especially in the realm of content creation. While AI can generate short drafts (around 400 words), it cannot handle the "last mile"—the essential human work of editing, adding citations, incorporating statistics, linking sources, and expanding the piece into a substantive article of 1,500–2,000 words. The speaker emphasizes that marketers tend to overhype technologies, and that genuine, high‑quality content still requires human involvement for now, with real breakthroughs expected only in the next five to ten years.

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The last mile, we still need humans. We can't rely completely on AI right now, and that's why I think we're overhyping AI. As marketers, we like to overhype things. I think given where it's at right now, it's amazing, but I think in the next 5, 10 years or so, we're going to see the real stuff. I think there's still a ways to go. We need humans at the very end of it. We need an editor to come in, add more citations, add more stats, link to things as well, expand the piece of content because this is 400 words. Let's expand it into 1,500 words, into 2,000 words or so, then we have a real piece of content.