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So many "AI" products have already fallen flat or crashed and burned that I can see a day coming when the word dissapears from marketing, that it becomes a net
by josefritzishere 2y ago
So many "AI" products have already fallen flat or crashed and burned that I can see a day coming when the word dissapears from marketing, that it becomes a net negative as a buzzword.
- jprete 2y agoI think that day is already here. But it's hard for an industry to suddenly reverse course on billions of dollars in business funding even if the industry collectively wanted to do it.
- hinkley 2y agoAs it ever does. We cherry pick a couple of ideas every AI hype cycle and distance them from AI and call them something else. Once upon a time Dynamic Programming was considered to be in the AI domain. We’ve narrowed the scope of AI many times since, but there are still algorithms we can tease out and make boring. People have tried to extract tensors once now (wisdom of crowds era), and they have hardware support now so
- sofixa 2y agoIt already has a negative connotation for potential buyers, so we're not far away: https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2024/07/30/using-the-term-artificial-intelligence-in-product-descriptions-reduces-purchase-intentions/ https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2024/07/30/using-the-term...
- wvenable 2y agoIt's already here: "Using the term 'artificial intelligence' in product descriptions reduces purchase intentions" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/07/240730134844.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/07/240730134844.h...