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I for one does not miss having "big data" being mentioned in every meeting, talk, memo, etc. Sure it's AI now, but even that doesn't become as annoying and misu

by tokai 3y ago

I for one does not miss having "big data" being mentioned in every meeting, talk, memo, etc. Sure it's AI now, but even that doesn't become as annoying and misunderstood as the big data fad was.

BiteCode_dev 3y ago
It's all cycle. Remember when XML was the future ? Money quote from https://www.bitecode.dev/p/hype-cycles https://www.bitecode.dev/p/hype-cycles: > geeks think they are rational beings, while they are completely influenced by buzz, marketing, and their emotions. Even more so than the average person, because they believe they are less susceptible to it than normies, so they have a blind spot.
- upupupandaway 3y ago
  This made me remember the amazing “parable of the languages” that had XML as the main antagonist of the story. We need an AI update for this one. https://burningbird.net/the-parable-of-the-languages/ https://burningbird.net/the-parable-of-the-languages/
- pjmlp 3y ago
  Here I am seated in meetings discussing MACH architectures and serverless, while thinking about "The Network is the Computer" in Sun's manuals.
  - marcosdumay 3y ago
    First time I hear about MACH. Is the name because of the Mach OS? (The top reference I get for it is a spam-site that is trying to hype the name and sell a domain.)
    - pjmlp 3y ago
      Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, and Headless. https://machalliance.org/ https://machalliance.org/ Yet another trend in our fashion driven industry.
      - marcosdumay 3y ago
        Oh, thanks, it's a completely unrelated acronym. I guess I liked the other Mach better, but I expect neither to go anywhere.
blitzar 3y ago
We need bigger big data (tm) to feed our Ai.
chx 3y ago
> but even that doesn't become as annoying and misunderstood as the big data fad was. Must be nostalgia. AI is much, much worse. And, even more importantly, not only it is a annoying buzzword, it is already threatening lives (see the mushroom guide written by AI) and democracies (see the "singing Modi" and "New Hampshire Officials to Investigate A.I. Robocalls"). Also both OpenAI and Anthrophic argued if licenses were required to train LLMs on copyrighted content, today’s general-purpose AI tools simply could not exist.
sebzim4500 3y ago
This might be naive, but I agree that AI hype will never be as annoying as Big Data hype. At least 90% when people mention wanting to use AI for something, I can at least see why they think AI will help them (even if I think it will be challenging in practice). 99% of the time when people talk about big data it is complete bullshit.
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genewitch 3y ago
AI is arguably the most well known MapReduce that we have, today, though

by tokai 3y ago

I for one does not miss having "big data" being mentioned in every meeting, talk, memo, etc. Sure it's AI now, but even that doesn't become as annoying and misunderstood as the big data fad was.

BiteCode_dev 3y ago

It's all cycle. Remember when XML was the future ? Money quote from https://www.bitecode.dev/p/hype-cycles https://www.bitecode.dev/p/hype-cycles: > geeks think they are rational beings, while they are completely influenced by buzz, marketing, and their emotions. Even more so than the average person, because they believe they are less susceptible to it than normies, so they have a blind spot.

upupupandaway 3y ago
This made me remember the amazing “parable of the languages” that had XML as the main antagonist of the story. We need an AI update for this one. https://burningbird.net/the-parable-of-the-languages/ https://burningbird.net/the-parable-of-the-languages/
pjmlp 3y ago
Here I am seated in meetings discussing MACH architectures and serverless, while thinking about "The Network is the Computer" in Sun's manuals.
- marcosdumay 3y ago
  First time I hear about MACH. Is the name because of the Mach OS? (The top reference I get for it is a spam-site that is trying to hype the name and sell a domain.)
  - pjmlp 3y ago
    Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, and Headless. https://machalliance.org/ https://machalliance.org/ Yet another trend in our fashion driven industry.
    - marcosdumay 3y ago
      Oh, thanks, it's a completely unrelated acronym. I guess I liked the other Mach better, but I expect neither to go anywhere.

blitzar 3y ago

We need bigger big data (tm) to feed our Ai.

chx 3y ago

> but even that doesn't become as annoying and misunderstood as the big data fad was. Must be nostalgia. AI is much, much worse. And, even more importantly, not only it is a annoying buzzword, it is already threatening lives (see the mushroom guide written by AI) and democracies (see the "singing Modi" and "New Hampshire Officials to Investigate A.I. Robocalls"). Also both OpenAI and Anthrophic argued if licenses were required to train LLMs on copyrighted content, today’s general-purpose AI tools simply could not exist.

sebzim4500 3y ago

This might be naive, but I agree that AI hype will never be as annoying as Big Data hype. At least 90% when people mention wanting to use AI for something, I can at least see why they think AI will help them (even if I think it will be challenging in practice). 99% of the time when people talk about big data it is complete bullshit.

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genewitch 3y ago

AI is arguably the most well known MapReduce that we have, today, though