Folks who evangelize AI always seemed weird to me. If someone has to try and convince you to use a massive breakthrough then its probably not as massive a breakthrough as one would think.
We didn’t have thinkpieces on why cell phones should be used, or why we shouldn’t call that new (at the time) service Netflix trash. We saw immediate use cases and advantages and went in on them. The plagiarism machine largely doesn’t have that going for it.
Folks who evangelize AI always seemed weird to me. If someone has to try and convince you to use a massive breakthrough then its probably not as massive a breakthrough as one would think.
We didn’t have thinkpieces on why cell phones should be used, or why we shouldn’t call that new (at the time) service Netflix trash. We saw immediate use cases and advantages and went in on them. The plagiarism machine largely doesn’t have that going for it.
More recently, 3D printers. They absolutely overpromised and overhyped in the early days, but people found uses for them in day 1.
Its almost like we need a “next big thing” every other year otherwise capitalism collapses. And if we dont find anything we just make something up.