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AI is a tool, like a hammer. Useful when used for its purpose. Unfortunately every tech company under the sun is using it for the wrong fucking thing. I don’t need AI in my operating system or my browser or my search engine. Just let it work on protein folding, chemical synthesis and other more useful applications. Honestly can’t wait for the AI hype to calm the fuck down.
Seem to have forgotten NFT. Swear to fuck, if some firm thought their customers really were that dumb, they’d have claimed that every bottle of their milk had an integrated NFT and the lactose protein was backed by the Blockchain™.
Preach it. I have been so sick of AI hype and rolling my eyes any time a business advertises it, and in some cases moving on. I don’t care about your glorified chat bot or search engine.
AI is a tool, like a hammer. Useful when used for its purpose. Unfortunately every tech company under the sun is using it for the wrong fucking thing. I don’t need AI in my operating system or my browser or my search engine. Just let it work on protein folding, chemical synthesis and other more useful applications. Honestly can’t wait for the AI hype to calm the fuck down.
It works pretty well as research/learn tool at my job… I learned a lot very fast using AI as a tool in my browser.
It’ll balance out. I’m old enough to remember many web tech being this way from flash, to Bluetooth to Cloud.
You forgot mass surveillance. It’s great at that.
The only way it’s going to die down is if it gets replaced with the next tech bro buzzword.
The previous one was “smart”, and it stuck around for a very long time.
Seem to have forgotten NFT. Swear to fuck, if some firm thought their customers really were that dumb, they’d have claimed that every bottle of their milk had an integrated NFT and the lactose protein was backed by the Blockchain™.
Blockchain was one
VR/AR
Preach it. I have been so sick of AI hype and rolling my eyes any time a business advertises it, and in some cases moving on. I don’t care about your glorified chat bot or search engine.
AI is the buzzword for a search engine that actually fucking works, something we used to have that gradually got enshittified out of existence