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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
www.thenerve.news/p/cory-doctorow-ai-business-incentive-to-lie-useless-chatbots-report-nikhil-suresh
The NerveCory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lyingIt has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our tech columnist
Replying to @floofloof@lemmy.ca
In other words, corporate leadership is starting from the premise that AI has (or will) radically change the business, and they’re working backwards from that premise to find the evidence to support this article of faith.
Sounds familiar. The proof-of-work blockchain scheme which was the fad a while ago is also often described as a solution in search of a problem.
Replying to @eah@programming.dev
I feel like block chain as a public ledger has found quite a few purposeful uses, and was a solution to a handful of problems most people rarely if ever encounter. Then fake money got involved
Replying to @JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca
Which purposeful uses did you have in mind?
Replying to @Cricket@lemmy.zip
Nothing that a centralized server wouldn’t be able to handle better.
Replying to @Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de
Or several other solutions for different use cases. I always remember this article about alternatives: gist.github.com/…/a90e21e3d06e1ad924a1bfdfe3c1690…
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