It’s the only thing holding the US economy afloat now. Do you want to fight your neighbours for the last piece of hardtack?

Fuck you, Michael. You stole my lunch out the fridge.

Isn't this a stupid attitude?

Wasn't the dot-com bubble anything other than people showing the internet in your face and how it's a game changer 24/7.

We are simply at the peak of the initial hype curve of the Gartner hype cycle, the bubble will burst soonish and lots of companies go bankrupt, then real use cases will emerge where it's actually revolutionary.

I don't know which youtuber but one had a good video about it, at some point in the past, all hype was around drones and delivering stuff to your front yard, turned out that was stupid yet those things found their niche, e.g. some medicine deliveries to remote location in Africa and AED devices that can fly out to people.

Not sure where you're going with that analogy. The vast majority of text processors do have a button that lets you print the document.

Kinda. We want AI like on Star Trek, but to get there we gotta go through these growing pains. The people who push AI in your face want it to get better — either because they want the altruistic Star Trek AI or because they want it to be profitable. I admit, most are the latter, but a few are the former.

You know, Im going to get downvoted to fuck for this... but. The same was said about LGBT stuff being pushed into every tv show and movie. Every DEI announcement by whatever company. There was a point that I was walking through Tesco, and over the loud speaker I was being reminded that "Tesco is supportive of Trans people". Like thats something that anyone cares about while shopping for frozen chips.

Its funny that we recognise the corporate bullshit when its AI, or NFTs or the Metaverse, or whatever else corporations have tried to push over the years. But when it was LGBT related, all of sudden we created a whole culture war around it. Mean while, companies like Adidas are selling rainbow shit to morons every pride month while at the same time shovelling large amounts of money in to things like the World Cup in Qatar that still has the death penalty on the table for being gay...

The virtue signal went so fucking hard. And that caused the virtue signal against it to go just as hard. Meanwhile, all the LGBT people are looking around at everyone during pride month and trying to not laugh at all the straight people doing this:

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I just find it curious that we can see it with AI, but when its LGBT thats being pushed, all of sudden, its fine. Its totally fine, to use LGBT people like product to market and profit from.