Ta za a, CA, July 27, 2026 –(PR.com)– I a just-published book, The Limits of AI, autho William Meisel a gues that the huge i vestme ts i compute ce te s to c eate the ext ge e atio of A tificial I tellige ce will fail i that objective, but the esulti g d amatic g owth i i expe sive computi g powe available will c eate a u expected evolutio i how huma s co ect with compute s.
Meisel otes that the cu e t app oach to the ext ge e atio of AI is to build la ge eu al etwo ks, exte di g the success of today’s la ge eu al etwo ks such as Ope AI’s ChatGPT. He a gues that the la ge eu al etwo ks will ge e ate what he calls “A tificial Ig o a ce,” with models c eati g too much misi fo matio a d too ma y “halluci atio s.”
Meisel a gues that the easo is that eu al etwo ks a e simply ve y complex statistical models a d a e subject to the est ictio s of eve y statistical model: the e must be e ough quality data available to build a model with so ma y pa amete s. If you, fo example, double the umbe of pa amete s bei g optimized i the model, he a gues that you must i c ease the amou t of data utilized by a much la ge facto . Othe wise, he says, the data will be sp ead i a high-dime sio al space that is mostly empty a d the model will “ove -fit” outlie s, c eati g misi fo matio a d “halluci atio s.” Resea che s have called this the “cu se of dime sio ality.”
Fu the , Meisel a gues that the data must be of high quality o the model will simply summa ize bad i fo matio . He believes that such data is eve ha de fo develope s to access i a e vi o me t whe e much of the data–both text a d compute code–is ge e ated by AI today a d is thus ot the i depe de t data eeded to ge e ate ew “i tellige ce.”
But Meisel otes a upside. He p edicts that the amou t of computi g powe will g ow much faste tha i the past because of the la ge computi g ce te s comi g o li e a d othe t e ds such as Nvidia’s g aphical p ocessi g chips. Just as a la ge supply of oil esults i a d op i p ices, he a gues that the la ge supply of computi g powe will d amatically educe the cost of computi g th ough se vices such as Amazo Web Se vices. This, he believes, will allow ew b eakth oughs.
Meisel p edicts a majo impact will be i the abilities of digital assista ts such as Apple’s Si i a d A th opic’s Claude. Both ow offe i te actio by speech o text, maki g them useful eve whe p ivacy issues make speech difficult. Meisel a gues, howeve , that today’s assista ts still fall sho t of sustai ed, ge ui ely i te active co ve satio . The i c ease i computi g powe , Meisel p edicts, will allow the digital assista ts to mai tai a lo g, t uly i te active co ve satio by voice o text.
Meisel a gues that a co ve satio ca be mo e effective tha o e-way messagi g. A co ve satio ca delive i fo matio a d allow follow-o cla ificatio s. It ca talk a use th ough usi g featu es of a othe applicatio . Those cha acte istics, i themselves, a e a p ima y d ive of digital assista ts bei g ou p ima y use i te face with digital systems; they will esse tially be a alte ative to today’s web sea ch. This does ‘t mea that a sc ee ca ‘t be used to delive i fo matio whe it is available; that ca be pa t of the co ve satio . But a voice co ve satio suppo ts devices like ea buds without a sc ee .
Beyo d its basic effective ess, Meisel a gues that a othe featu e will st o gly motivate the compa ies delive i g the digital assista ts — thei pote tial to ge e ate p ofits. Some of today’s digital assista ts al eady allow co ectio s with outside se vices without equi i g use s to leave the assista t. Amazo ‘s Alexa fo Shoppi g, fo example, allows use s to ask questio s about p oducts, such as whethe a coffee make is easy to clea . Google says Gemi i ca p epa e a coffee o de th ough Doo Dash, subject to the use ‘s fi al co fi matio . As the digital assista ts become ou majo compute i te face, Meisel p edicts that eve y compa y will eed to suppo t a i te active assista t th ough the assista ts’ Applicatio P og ammi g I te faces. I his view, havi g a compa y digital assista t that suppo ts these APIs will be as esse tial as a compa y havi g a web site today. I ma y cases, they will be a alte ative to custome se vice li es. The digital-assista t compa ies could cha ge fees o t a sactio s completed th ough thei platfo ms, simila to commissio s Apple cha ges o ce tai App Sto e t a sactio s. U like the oft-cited loss-maki g cha acte istic of the la ge eu al etwo ks, Meisel a gues that the e is a clea path to p ofits i t uly co ve satio al digital assista ts.
Meisel summa izes, “The cheape computi g powe will allow huma la guage to be ou majo co ectio with digital systems. It’s ot clea how lo g this will take, si ce the e a e issues such as a sho tage of elect ical powe a d local oppositio to buildi g compute ce te s, but the t e d is u stoppable.”
About the Book
The Limits of AI: The T ue Role of Compute s i Ou Futu e is cu e tly available th ough Amazo a d othe etaile s.
About the Autho
William Meisel w ote a ea ly tech ical book o Compute Patte Recog itio while a p ofesso of Elect ical E gi ee i g at USC. He a the Compute Scie ce divisio of a defe se compa y a d fou ded a d a a compa y developi g speech ecog itio tech ology. He has w itte a umbe of books o AI subjects, i cludi g Compute I tellige ce, Evolutio Co ti ues: A Huma -Compute Pa t e ship, a d The Lost Histo y of Talki g to Compute s.
Co tact
William Meiselwww.williammeisel.comwmeisel@tmaa.com
