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I’m not sure how the hype wagon started but I for one am glad it’s about to pop. I am working (founded) a startup and while we have AI on the roadmap for about

by jarym 8y ago

I’m not sure how the hype wagon started but I for one am glad it’s about to pop. I am working (founded) a startup and while we have AI on the roadmap for about a years time, it isn’t something that’s central to our product. (We already use some ML techniques but I’d not confidently boast its the same thing as AI). Cue an informal lunch with a VC guy who takes a look, says we’re cool and tells us just to plaster the word AI in more places - he was sure we could raise a stupendous sum of cash doing that. As an AI enthusiast I was bothered by this. We have everyone and their mother hyping AI into areas it’s not even relevant in, let alone effective at. A toning down would be healthy. We could then focus on developing the right technology slowly and without all the lofty expectations to live up to.

flohofwoe 8y ago
> ...just to plaster the word AI in more places... I bet that's how the new "AI-assisted" Intellisense in Visual Studio got greenlit: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2018/05/07/introducing-visual-studio-intellicode/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2018/05/07/int... If an AI-infested text editor isn't a sure sign that the bubble is going to pop soon then I don't know ;)
- annabellish 8y ago
  I think part of this ridiculousness may just be that the common lexicon doesn't have enough words for AI. "AI-assisted Intellisense" at the moment seems to boil down to a marginally novel way of ordering autocomplete suggestions, and like... It's not wrong? It's neat, it's potentially useful, and it's powered by something under the umbrella of "AI". The problem is that that umbrella is gigantic, and covers everything from the AI system providing routes for the AI system in a self-driving truck on AI-provided schedules for a hypothetical mostly-automated shipping business, to a script I whipped up in ten minutes to teach something 2+2 and literally nothing else. So we get to the nonsense position where there isn't a better way to describe a minor improvement to what is essentially the ordering of a drop-down list except by comparison to the former example.

by jarym 8y ago

flohofwoe 8y ago

> ...just to plaster the word AI in more places... I bet that's how the new "AI-assisted" Intellisense in Visual Studio got greenlit: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2018/05/07/introducing-visual-studio-intellicode/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2018/05/07/int... If an AI-infested text editor isn't a sure sign that the bubble is going to pop soon then I don't know ;)

annabellish 8y ago
I think part of this ridiculousness may just be that the common lexicon doesn't have enough words for AI. "AI-assisted Intellisense" at the moment seems to boil down to a marginally novel way of ordering autocomplete suggestions, and like... It's not wrong? It's neat, it's potentially useful, and it's powered by something under the umbrella of "AI". The problem is that that umbrella is gigantic, and covers everything from the AI system providing routes for the AI system in a self-driving truck on AI-provided schedules for a hypothetical mostly-automated shipping business, to a script I whipped up in ten minutes to teach something 2+2 and literally nothing else. So we get to the nonsense position where there isn't a better way to describe a minor improvement to what is essentially the ordering of a drop-down list except by comparison to the former example.