A friend of mine sent me this article last week thinking I would really like it. I do. The author is talking about AI and the whole startup culture but what he describes goes is far beyond tech. He is describing our culture. He is describing the fiat state ruled world.
This guy is a good writer and its an entertaining read. He has worked in the tech industry for some time.
Grifters, on the other hand, wield the omnitool that they self-aggrandizingly call 'politics'2. That is to say, it turns out that the core competency of smiling and promising people things that you can't actually deliver is highly transferable
They know exactly what their target market is - people who have been given power of other people's money because they've learned how to smile at everything, and know that you can print money by hitching yourself to the next speculative bandwagon.
The AI craze really is like the block chain craze but 100 times worse. Put everything on the block chain. A slow and overly engineered database.
Enjoyed the title
This thing is full of spot-on gems
It sure is. I recommend some of his other writings as well. I haven't read them all but the ones I have a good.
I use AI for some things, but as the exception not the norm. I know way too many people using AI for far too many activities - and they are almost becoming dependent on it.
I am also getting sick of this ai gimmick. What does it actually do for us? Use a bhnch of energy to make ai art?
There are some use cases like AI checking your ECG, for example. see the paper, don’t have a better one at hand
AI is a good fit for medical practice since it's mostly memorization and guesswork. Plus past diagnoses and interventions are
well recordedin doctor's notes. So if the AI is trained on medical textbooks, professor's lectures and historical doctor's notes it will be better than a human in recollection and correlation.Love the title!
Wow, this article is a gem. Another quote:
Yes! I've totally seen this with other tech fads. I remember other engineers talking about how they got something like one job offer a day on Linked In, after they had halfway plausibly been able to put the latest tech buzzword on their skills list. But the actual project they worked on was a complete and utter useless waste of money.
I feel like we have to have these hype cycles or rather need them to go totally balls to the wall devoid from reality because it kind of justifies throwing cash at something, printing, generating more debt, it's overpaying at any attempt to bring some sort of future production and into the now so the burden of debt can be reduced, but sadly I don't think chatbots and image generation is going to do that
I loved this quote:
It reminds me of some other tech fads I've seen.
Long but funny
Wonder what his prompt was?
no one is even consing about the fact that AI and automation can lead to the displacement of jobs, particularly in sectors like manufacturing, retail, and customer service. This can result in unemployment and require significant workforce retraining and upskilling and this is very serious considering the world population
Everyone talks about that constantly.
Exactly.
If my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle
AI 🤣