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> Epoch five: from information to insights Eugh, this article is full of MBA-speak, not something I'd expect from a highly technical Google Fellow.

JSR_FDED 3y ago
Geez I only just wrapped my head around the “fourth Industrial Revolution” we are apparently in… https://www.salesforce.com/eu/blog/industry-4-0-where-are-we-going/#:~:text=What%20is%20the%20Fourth%20Industrial%20Revolution%3F,Things%20and%20cyber%2Dphysical%20systems https://www.salesforce.com/eu/blog/industry-4-0-where-are-we....
- reactordev 3y ago
  I somehow feel like these are cover pieces so that the execs can show to their board that they are “thinking about AI”.
  - dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
    You should read the article.
    - reactordev 3y ago
      I have, nothing in it had any substance whatsoever. Reinforcing my point that it’s just a cover piece for whatever boardroom argument is to be made for or against AI (or to quote the article: the “digital future”)
      - dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
        The fact •you• don’t see substance doesn’t mean it’s not there…
- dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
  3-D printers in stores was the third…
AtlasBarfed 3y ago
The dominant shift in the internet of the last ten years was monopoly consolidation and a dramatic reduction in access to information since almost all of it is behind their walls. Mobile has extended these walls with mafia racketeering app stores and absolutely atrociously designed gambling-addict games, information stealing, and outright fraud. The dream of the internet died completely about five years ago. This overpaid google shill isn't worth listening to. Google had about a decade of plausable deniability on "do no evil". They stopped the charade, and we know what they are. Like sociopaths always do, they tell you and you should listen. AI is an even more intrusive, dangerous penetration and control of our lives, and a massive power grab by these tools of the very very very elite few. The guy is right: the internet WAS about access to the evolving body of human knowledge, WAS about sci-fi level capabilities and conveniences, and WAS a miracle. WAS. AI is the rocket fuel that accelerates the vector from the momentary point of near-idealism to the dystopian corporate control we are currently mostly in, that as a DOUBLE BONUS serves as fine grained total information awareness for all the state actors of the world, and likely a worldwide destruction of the last semblances of democracy.
- spacecadet 3y ago
  This.
- seabird 3y ago
  Just drop out. The old dream is still alive and the earlier you quit caring what SV hypecycle dorks and TikTok brainslop fiends think and/or do the earlier you get to live that dream. In absolute terms, there are probably more people that want what you do now than there has been at any point in the past. You're just butting up against how little the average person cares, but that's their cross to bear. Don't let it ruin what you have.
0xcafefood 3y ago
Google is trending towards IBM levels of hype and self-aggrandizement.
- throwanem 3y ago
  And delivery.

JSR_FDED 3y ago

Geez I only just wrapped my head around the “fourth Industrial Revolution” we are apparently in… https://www.salesforce.com/eu/blog/industry-4-0-where-are-we-going/#:~:text=What%20is%20the%20Fourth%20Industrial%20Revolution%3F,Things%20and%20cyber%2Dphysical%20systems https://www.salesforce.com/eu/blog/industry-4-0-where-are-we....

reactordev 3y ago
I somehow feel like these are cover pieces so that the execs can show to their board that they are “thinking about AI”.
- dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
  You should read the article.
  - reactordev 3y ago
    I have, nothing in it had any substance whatsoever. Reinforcing my point that it’s just a cover piece for whatever boardroom argument is to be made for or against AI (or to quote the article: the “digital future”)
    - dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
      The fact •you• don’t see substance doesn’t mean it’s not there…
dirtyhippiefree 3y ago
3-D printers in stores was the third…

AtlasBarfed 3y ago

The dominant shift in the internet of the last ten years was monopoly consolidation and a dramatic reduction in access to information since almost all of it is behind their walls. Mobile has extended these walls with mafia racketeering app stores and absolutely atrociously designed gambling-addict games, information stealing, and outright fraud. The dream of the internet died completely about five years ago. This overpaid google shill isn't worth listening to. Google had about a decade of plausable deniability on "do no evil". They stopped the charade, and we know what they are. Like sociopaths always do, they tell you and you should listen. AI is an even more intrusive, dangerous penetration and control of our lives, and a massive power grab by these tools of the very very very elite few. The guy is right: the internet WAS about access to the evolving body of human knowledge, WAS about sci-fi level capabilities and conveniences, and WAS a miracle. WAS. AI is the rocket fuel that accelerates the vector from the momentary point of near-idealism to the dystopian corporate control we are currently mostly in, that as a DOUBLE BONUS serves as fine grained total information awareness for all the state actors of the world, and likely a worldwide destruction of the last semblances of democracy.

spacecadet 3y ago
This.
seabird 3y ago
Just drop out. The old dream is still alive and the earlier you quit caring what SV hypecycle dorks and TikTok brainslop fiends think and/or do the earlier you get to live that dream. In absolute terms, there are probably more people that want what you do now than there has been at any point in the past. You're just butting up against how little the average person cares, but that's their cross to bear. Don't let it ruin what you have.

0xcafefood 3y ago

Google is trending towards IBM levels of hype and self-aggrandizement.

throwanem 3y ago
And delivery.