AI feels like a real mania, a genuine collective break from reality among the ruling class. They might as well be pouring billions of dollars into an attempt to replace all jobs and knowledge with a large bronze idol of Dagon.
I was speaking to a Microsoft dev yesterday, and, in his words, "we are now being required to include AI in every product, whether it makes sense to or not."
A certain technology is being prescribed, often over the protests of the people who best understand how it works. It's buck wild.
Our company, which does something specific & unique (patents/govt. sanctioned), was asked in writing to explain how we planed on utilizing “AI & Machine Learning” in our upcoming project. I had to craft an acceptable response that only gently implied “WTF do you think we’re doing here, exactly?”
This is like when some executives wanted to shove “blockchain” into everything, even if it made no sense whatsoever, and devs had to invent ways to tack it onto projects.
But the AI hype is happening at a MUCH larger scale. It’s like every company bought into it and is now trying to make it work.
At a pharmaceutical company you've heard of, they keep new drugs in the development phase even when the scientists know it has dim prospects. The stock price is based on the potential for new products, so they want to be able to convey the impression they have many prospects.
