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Yup, we should term this "the .ai bubble".

corodra 8y ago
Wouldn't this technically be like the 4th ai bubble? I remember reading these bubbles have been happening since the 60s. edit: Okay, I'm slightly wrong. I looked it up due to curiosity. This would qualify as the 3rd major ai bubble, but there have been a few minor ones. Also known as "ai winters": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter AI winter referring to the lack of funding in ai projects instead of collapse in companies.
- ravenstine 8y ago
  The bad side of me wouldn't mind another AI winter. Today I heard on the radio what was essentially data aggregated and related with SQL joins referred to as "AI". I've never heard another term become as meaningless as AI. Even blockchain is better defined.
  - corodra 8y ago
    Insert old man voice "If I had things my way, making hype about anything would be punishable by death." Not going to lie. If someone ran for president on just that platform alone, where it's illegal to make any overblown promise/hype on tech, the contenders really need to come up with some good arguments for me not to vote for the hype killer. I'm just afraid what's going to be the next hype train. The blockchain hype train was just plain dumb. It's a super niche piece of tech with really limited uses. Still cool for that. But will never revolutionize the world. This AI bandwagon is getting out of hand. People think all AI tech is perfect 100% of the time, all the time. It's more, works 93% of the time, 23% of the time. The next hype tech... scares me what it could be.
    - jf- 8y ago
      This is how I feel as well. Hype takes on a life of it’s own as it becomes fashionable to repeat other people’s talking points about a technology you know nothing about, have never used and have never critically considered. But that’s sort of humans in a nutshell, isn’t it?
      - corodra 8y ago
        Do you also think it deals with "belief" of something new and fantastic. I might be reaching on this... and this idea is like a grand total of 2 minutes old in my head. But take crop circles. Over and god damn over, they're proven to be some bored asshole that went out with a board, some rope, and free time to make shit in a field. But every time a new one pops up, "Oh my god... is it aliens!?!?!" Every time in tech. Overblown claims are made and shown to be false or limited in scope. By "smart people" towards "smart people". But we still get "No! This will change the world!". "It might change the way we take dumps on the shitter, but not the world." "IT WILL CHANGE THE WORLD!". Or "Making the world a better place through statistically blockchain distributed interconnected AI designed silicon chips... 2.0" I mean... it's all a religion. Looking at it in another light. Heavy prayer and belief in things you probably shouldn't. Makes tech people more religious than those that are "religious". I might be reaching and ranting at this point.
  - p1esk 8y ago
    I strongly suspect something conceptually similar to SQL joins is going on in a human brain.

Wouldn't this technically be like the 4th ai bubble? I remember reading these bubbles have been happening since the 60s. edit: Okay, I'm slightly wrong. I looked it up due to curiosity. This would qualify as the 3rd major ai bubble, but there have been a few minor ones. Also known as "ai winters": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter AI winter referring to the lack of funding in ai projects instead of collapse in companies.

ravenstine 8y ago
The bad side of me wouldn't mind another AI winter. Today I heard on the radio what was essentially data aggregated and related with SQL joins referred to as "AI". I've never heard another term become as meaningless as AI. Even blockchain is better defined.
- corodra 8y ago
  Insert old man voice "If I had things my way, making hype about anything would be punishable by death." Not going to lie. If someone ran for president on just that platform alone, where it's illegal to make any overblown promise/hype on tech, the contenders really need to come up with some good arguments for me not to vote for the hype killer. I'm just afraid what's going to be the next hype train. The blockchain hype train was just plain dumb. It's a super niche piece of tech with really limited uses. Still cool for that. But will never revolutionize the world. This AI bandwagon is getting out of hand. People think all AI tech is perfect 100% of the time, all the time. It's more, works 93% of the time, 23% of the time. The next hype tech... scares me what it could be.
  - jf- 8y ago
    This is how I feel as well. Hype takes on a life of it’s own as it becomes fashionable to repeat other people’s talking points about a technology you know nothing about, have never used and have never critically considered. But that’s sort of humans in a nutshell, isn’t it?
    - corodra 8y ago
      Do you also think it deals with "belief" of something new and fantastic. I might be reaching on this... and this idea is like a grand total of 2 minutes old in my head. But take crop circles. Over and god damn over, they're proven to be some bored asshole that went out with a board, some rope, and free time to make shit in a field. But every time a new one pops up, "Oh my god... is it aliens!?!?!" Every time in tech. Overblown claims are made and shown to be false or limited in scope. By "smart people" towards "smart people". But we still get "No! This will change the world!". "It might change the way we take dumps on the shitter, but not the world." "IT WILL CHANGE THE WORLD!". Or "Making the world a better place through statistically blockchain distributed interconnected AI designed silicon chips... 2.0" I mean... it's all a religion. Looking at it in another light. Heavy prayer and belief in things you probably shouldn't. Makes tech people more religious than those that are "religious". I might be reaching and ranting at this point.
- p1esk 8y ago
  I strongly suspect something conceptually similar to SQL joins is going on in a human brain.