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AI is a con
AI is a grift
AI is a scam
"The people who have temporarily gotten rich or famous on AI have done so by pretending that this outlier problem simply doesn’t exist, or that a remedy for it is imminent. When the bubble deflation that I have been predicting comes, as now seems imminent, it will come because so many people have begun to recognize that GenAI can’t live up to expectations."
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/this-one-important-fact-about-current
@gerrymcgovern do you think AI is a scam, or just that investors and financial types just haven’t learned what to apply it to and what not to apply it to yet?
With many of the automation and analysis tasks in business that I have come across, AI and LLMs are massive drivers of productivity.
Happy to say the market is overhyped and a financial bubble and AGI is nothing but a myth at this stage. But I do think the core tech doesn’t have amazing use cases when applied correctly.
@blairbarley It is a scam at multiple levels. All this so-called productivity that tech has driven since the 1970s, has it helped stabilize the climate, improve air quality, improve water quality, improve soil quality, reduce plastic and chemical pollution, reduce overall energy needs, improve social cohesion? You know, what has it done for the very basics for life? Or have all these "productivity gains" actually destroyed all of the above?
AI is just one more scam in the Big Tech Big Lie.
@gerrymcgovern haha! Well you’re going one big step deeper, and I like it!
In terms of building businesses that can make more money, I think AI has a lot of genuine potential and is not a scam.
In terms of actually making life better and raising humanity up, I agree. Like most tech, it will increase the gap between the rich and poor, ruin the planet, and enslave us even more to our screens, devices, ecosystems and corporate masters.
I am going for a walk!