cross-posted from: https://awful.systems/post/1734913
another obviously correct opinion from Lucidity
And then some absolute son of a removed created ChatGPT, and now look at us. Look at us, resplendent in our pauper’s robes, stitched from corpulent greed and breathless credulity, spending half of the planet’s engineering efforts to add chatbot support to every application under the sun when half of the industry hasn’t worked out how to test database backups regularly. This is why I have to visit untold violence upon the next moron to propose that AI is the future of the business - not because this is impossible in principle, but because they are now indistinguishable from a hundred million willful fucking idiots.
Yup
meanwhile on /c/gaming you get told if you dont think ML is actually AI “you’re not a data scientist”
Joke’s on them, because “data scientist” is a confused term too. It’s like saying you’re a movement dancer :)
Yeah well I didn’t even respond to something that wrong. AI is multidisciplinary and people are just seething about LLM/generative ai
I feel like I’m not tech savvy enough to get the bigger points in this article. Can someone do a brief precis?
Basically the tech industry is full of enough “product leader” douchebags that they truly believe a “convincing bullshit generator” is revolutionary. Now they don’t even have to come up with their own vacuous bullshit