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eppur_se_muova

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12. Correction: Past time. Hype pushes strock prices higher, which is what it's all about.

Reply to cbabe (Original post)

Tue Jun 10, 2025, 02:50 PM

Jun 10

It should be noted that the term "artificial intelligence" has actually been applied to several different varieties of algorithms, which only muddies the water. But that obfuscation benefits those who are just trying to sell a product for whatever the market will bear -- confused customers are more readily separated from their money, afraid that they'll be at a disadvantage without "AI", even if they don't really know what they're buying.

The huge power consumption of AI, especially applied to topics that can't really justify it, is enough reason to detest the hype and overuse.

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When billion-dollar AIs break down over puzzles a child can do, it's time to rethink the hype [View all] cbabe Jun 10 OP

K&R! I'd bookmarked the op-ed earlier this morning while catching up with news, had planned to post highplainsdem Jun 10 #1

AI should be illegal! SheltieLover Jun 10 #2

I fear for the next-gen college students as they're being allowed to use in now for their studies. brush Jun 10 #4

They'll be dumbed down and easily manipulated by politicians, advertisers, and especially the tech lords highplainsdem Jun 10 #5

Yep, it's scary. They'll be in positions of responsiblity in 20 years or so... brush Jun 10 #6

"Idiocracy" combined with "1984" - what a wonderful AI-assisted future. highplainsdem Jun 10 #7

Ah, George Orwell, certainly ahead of his time, but the aging and senile-adjacent trump... brush Jun 10 #8

"can't fold proteins like special-purpose neurosymbolic hybrids" stopdiggin Jun 10 #3

Why do I feel like the developers of AI are just not that bright? dchill Jun 10 #9

When people don't understand a subject, they find it easy to call developers "not that bright". Bernardo de La Paz Jun 10 #11

Current consumer AI is Large Language Models, LLMs. They do not have reasoning modules. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 10 #10

Correction: Past time. Hype pushes strock prices higher, which is what it's all about. eppur_se_muova Jun 10 #12