Comment on Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor
TuffNutzes@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Watching tech bros fumble their “revolutionary society changing tech!” while they look like fools is hysterical.
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 1 week ago
They’re chasing that one moment in the early aughts when what they had actually blew peoples minds.
plenipotentprotogod@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Time to quote Dan Olson again. This was originally written about NFTs, but just replace “crypto” with “AI” and it’s still 100% relevant:
From the incomparable line goes up
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
This has been pretty much the way of the Tech Industry since the Internet bubble burst around 2000 - people who didn’t ride that bubble up to it’s peak trying to inflate a new bubble (along with some people who did ride that previous bubble up but wanted to make even more money).
It’s why the Tech Startup ecosystem has never again been domain of naive techies trying to do cool stuff that it was in the 90s and it’s now all about Pitching and Networking To Find Investors and were Founders are mainly people from salesmanship-heavy backgrounds (Finance, Marketing, MBAs) rather than people from a STEM background.
The entire thing is now a machine to pump up investment bubbles.