probably meaning "Commerical products"
Unless this is written by someone who actually knows what AI is since the 70s, then it just means "all them scientists who had academic papers backlogged during the pandemic? They finsihed clearing that backlog"
It's better than Google for very general topics in software engineering. It saves me some time, it gives me a very wrong and incorrect answer that I can Google to get a better answer...
How was this supposed to make money? Even more than Crypto and NFT's, this one was a head-scratcher. Once "replace all employees with AI" became obvious fantasy what was plan B? How does google or MS profit from poisoning their main products with it? I'm at a loss. Subscriptions? Lol ok.
It's a marked difference between the early 20th century scams. Back then the marks were everyone, rich and poor. In the 21st century the marks seem to be exclusively mega corps/big money and selling them snake oil. The rest of us, by and large, roundly reject this shit.
For analysts with eyes to see, the AI hype cycle has communicated something very bad about the state of Google and Microsoft's senior executives. Those two in particular made big bets on LLM-based AI, pushing it to the forefront of their public-facing products even though it obviously wasn't ready.
It's worse than that: Both of them are pushing not-ready products just to keep up with the other one pushing not-ready products. Before either one released a thing, those projects were kept internal and treated as not ready for prime time.
I finally bit the bullet and replaced my 3D TV with an up to date OLED this year. I miss the 3D. I used it a lot and have a pretty big collection of 3D Blu-rays, most of which I don’t imagine I’ll ever bother watching flat.
The real kicker is that the tech was cheap and figured out. They could’ve-
-just kept including support as a feature for effectively pennies per unit. But if it wasn’t a big flashy selling point anymore they’d rather just cut that corner and leave people who liked and used it high and dry.
LMAO. ESPN had a stupid 3d broadcast they tried to peddle and everything.
Good grief that whole trend was idiotic insofar as being obviously doomed to fail from day one.
I think because WA US Sen Cantwell is the Chair of the tech committee, they're trying to gin up constituent pressure by using phony "small businesses" who "depend on AI to make us more efficient." 🙄🙄🙄
the underlying problem with ai is that it was never meant to be something good. it was just meant for tech companies to get us to buy more computing power in a time where we dont actually need it. their sales figures are going down and they’re panicking, so they want us to consume even more.
it actually shows something much more sinister about consumerism and the culture we created, that environmental and ethical problems, exploitation of workers, etc. dont actually matter in the face of growth slowing down
And I'm sure they'll go as far as to say that we consumers are to blame for their AI flop, because we “don't” understand what their technology is meant to bring.
As always.
