The utter emptiness of the AI hype really reminds me of the Dotcom bubble, when there was a hype just because "Internet", with absolutely no substance.
(Guess what this ad from 2000 is for.)
The utter emptiness of the AI hype really reminds me of the Dotcom bubble, when there was a hype just because "Internet", with absolutely no substance.
(Guess what this ad from 2000 is for.)
@pmonks AI has been around for 70 years, it's just used as a substance-less marketing hype term right now; just like the Internet had been around for 30 years in the late 90s and was uses as a substance-less marketing hype term back then.
@thomasfuchs Except that the internet was a groundbreaking technology that enabled substantial advances in all kinds of human endeavours, while AI seems to me to just be plagiarism+autocorrect on steroids.
@paninid it was a weird time
@thomasfuchs what a WEIRD image.
@pmonks I think there's plenty of applications for e.g. neural networks for actual helpful things; but I completely agree overall it's more of a niche technology and it's neither revolutionary nor life-changing and 100% definitely the generative AI stuff is basically bullshit.
@thomasfuchs The difference being that moving the internet from academic toy to commercial tool had actual utility outside of tech itself. AI over the same period has both been numerous completely unrelated things (e.g. the early Lisp/AI craze), and (IMO) has vastly less opportunity to be a useful tool to actual humans doing non-tech human things.
@bk1e You can meet at his location /
But you'd better come with cash
@thomasfuchs He is living comfort eagle
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