I love the detail that she put “+ AI” on both sides of the equation so that it’s still technically correct regardless of what the AI stands for.
Sometimes it helps solve an equation by adding zero.
My company, while cutting back elsewhere, has dedicated a few million to AI projects over the next couple years. Not “projects to solve X business problem.” Just projects that use AI.
So of course now, anything that is automated in any way is now being touted as AI. Taking data from one system and populating another? That’s AI.
My company is like this. They literally have a feature in the roadmap called AI, and say we have to do something with it because our competitors do.
I’m old enough to have gone through a number of these technology bubbles, so much so that I haven’t paid much attention to them for a fair while. This AI bs feels a bit different, though. It seems to me that lots more people have completely lost their minds this time.
Like all bubbles, this too will end up in the same rubbish heap.
That’s because there’s a non zero amount of actually functionality. Chatgpt does some useful stuff for normal people. It’s accessible.
Contrast that to crypto, which was only accessible to tech folks and barely useful, or NFT which had no use at all.
Ok, I guess to be fair, the purpose of NFT was to separate chumps from their money, and it was quite good at that.
Really learning from the Arabs.
Al Project
Al Company
Al ProductAI Qaeda
(I’m so sorry)
