• randy@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    It sure feels like we’re at the peak of the Gartner hype cycle. If so, the bubble will pop, and we’ll end up with AI used where it actually works, not shoved into everything. In the long run, that pop could be a small blip in overall development, like the dot-com bust was to the growth of the internet, but it’s difficult to predict that while still in the middle of the hype cycle.

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      1 year ago

      What I don’t get is the snobby attitude towards it though. I’ve commented else where that it has all the earmarks of being a manufactured outrage. It has all the same earmarks of any other media driven hate fest.

      Think of the logic where you are both angry that it’s useless, hateful of tech bros and still mad that they’re wasting money on it.

      To me it’s just fun new thing I can play with and potentially might be something bigger might not be. But when I talk to people online it’s like I’m talking immigration or gender with Republicans. It’s all the and talking points, vitriolic statements and hate