The people marketing it have absolutely no understanding of what they’re selling.
Has it ever been any different? Like, I’m not in tech, I build signs for a living, and the people selling our signs have no idea what they’re selling.
Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yup.
I don’t know why. The people marketing it have absolutely no understanding of what they’re selling.
Best part is that I get paid if it works as they expect it to and I get paid if I have to decommission or replace it. I’m not the one developing the AI that they’re wasting money on, they just demanded I use it.
That’s true software engineering folks. Decoupling doesn’t just make it easier to program and reuse, it saves your job when you need to retire something later too.
Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Ultraviolet@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The worrying part is the implications of what they’re claiming to sell. They’re selling an imagined future in which there exists a class of sapient beings with no legal rights that corporations can freely enslave. How far that is from reality doesn’t matter, it’s absolutely horrifying that this is something the ruling class wants.
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Their goal isn’t to make AI.
The goal of both the VCs and the startups is to make money. That’s why.
Kronusdark@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s not even to make money, they already do that. They need GROWTH. More money this quarter than last or the stockholders don’t get paid.
TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Growth doesn’t mean revenue over cost anymore, it just means number go up. The easiest way to create growth from nothing is marketing tulips to venture capital and retail investors.