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I wrote an article I published a week ago about how AI is the biggest misnomer in tech history https://medium.com/@seibelj/the-artificial-intelligence-scam-is-i
by seibelj 7y ago
I wrote an article I published a week ago about how AI is the biggest misnomer in tech history https://medium.com/@seibelj/the-artificial-intelligence-scam-is-imploding-34b156c3537e https://medium.com/@seibelj/the-artificial-intelligence-scam...
I wrote it to be tongue-in-cheek in a ranting style, but essentially "AI" businesses and the technology underpinning it are not the silver bullet the media and marketing hype has made it out to be. The linked article about a16z shows how AI is the same story everywhere - enormous capital to get the data and engineers to automate, but even the "good" AI still gets it wrong much of the time, necessitating endless edge-cases, human intervention, and eventually it's a giant ball of poorly-understand and impossible to maintain pipelines that don't even provide a better result than a few humans with a spreadsheet.
- scottlocklin 7y agoComing from a fellow masshole: that's a great rant. There was this meme in the 70s about "self driving cars" following magnetic strips in the road in restricted highways. I remember at the time, being, like 8 and thinking "sure seems like an overly complicated train."
- seibelj 7y agoThanks man! Lifelong masshole here. Your post was much better than mine, but I appreciate the comment.