Yes, all the same people who thought smartphones were actually “smart” or that social media was actually “social” are the ones thinking artificial intelligence is actually “intelligent”. Just cause a company calls their product “vitamin water” doesn’t make it healthy, and the sooner people learn to see through the bs hype machine that major corporations have us all hypnotized by, the better for everyone.
Though in those cases while there is confusion, the outsized investment factor didn’t figure in. The value proposition was more in line with realistic possibilities with the respective technologies. Smart phones may not have been that smart, but plenty capable to land in every pocket and be both a rich revenue stream in and of themselves as well as an onramp to ‘app store’ revenue and a goldmine of private data.
The LLMs have value, but I’m skeptical it justifies all the very large and very weird financial shenigans going on with nonsensical depreciation claims, crazy loans, and circle jerk of money going out to a customer to let the customer give it back for product…
Yes, all the same people who thought smartphones were actually “smart” or that social media was actually “social” are the ones thinking artificial intelligence is actually “intelligent”. Just cause a company calls their product “vitamin water” doesn’t make it healthy, and the sooner people learn to see through the bs hype machine that major corporations have us all hypnotized by, the better for everyone.
Though in those cases while there is confusion, the outsized investment factor didn’t figure in. The value proposition was more in line with realistic possibilities with the respective technologies. Smart phones may not have been that smart, but plenty capable to land in every pocket and be both a rich revenue stream in and of themselves as well as an onramp to ‘app store’ revenue and a goldmine of private data.
The LLMs have value, but I’m skeptical it justifies all the very large and very weird financial shenigans going on with nonsensical depreciation claims, crazy loans, and circle jerk of money going out to a customer to let the customer give it back for product…