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I've noticed AI evangelists -- those 2nd tier experts, who're not on every show and youtube channel, but do consulting and once in a while appear here and there
by culebron21 1y ago
I've noticed AI evangelists -- those 2nd tier experts, who're not on every show and youtube channel, but do consulting and once in a while appear here and there -- jumped on the hype wagon 1.5-2 years ago.
They'd pedal FOMO and would promise eldorado to everyone who joins. "AI will do everything for you, you'll be fired."
Now I see them change the tone. It's like: "c'mon, it's a special tool, you need to use it properly, and give it what it needs."
They sell quickly made courses. Same guys who in '12 would advertize "Mobile strategies" consulting (remember that thing here on HN?), then AR with Google glass in '14, then crypto in '17, then web3, and so on.
- shubb 1y agoI think there is something like a pyramid scheme of people who sell classes, and people who sell classes about how to sell classes. The top level slowly pull the whole chain to the next fad and then the next. Drop shipping, ghost writing books for kindle unlimited, various flavors of wellness... you can watch them flow into a space and usually destroy it. I'm curious how centralized the operation is. Individually it's a bunch of hustlers running their own little personal branding operation, but if each of them is in a masterclass, and the masterclass leaders are in a masterclass, has a small group of mega-influencers formed, and who are they?
- culebron21 1y ago5 hours later: Klarna changes its AI tune and again recruits humans for customer service https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43955374 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43955374 "of course, AI is just another tool, and has its niche" :D