Why GenAI Isn't Ready for Prime Time

If you have followed my posts on social media, you know by now that I've taken a very pragmatic (and perhaps pessimistic) approach to the whole hype around GenAI in the past several years. Personally, I do not believe the technology is mature enough to allow people to blindly trust its outcomes. In this blog post, I will share my personal view of why GenAI is not ready for prime time, nor will it replace human jobs anytime in the foreseeable future. Some background The hype around GenAI for the non-technical person who reads the news comes from publications almost every week. Here are a few of the common examples: Text summarization - GenAI can summarize long portions of text, which may be useful if you're a student who is currently preparing an essay as part of your college assignments, or if you are a journalist who needs to review a lot of written material while preparing an article for the newsletter. Image/video generation – GenAI is able to create amazing images (using models suc