I listen to a lot of tech podcasts, and I read a lot of tech articles. With that as the basis, I am so sick of hearing about AI that I could vomit.
And it’s not even writers/podcasters espousing the greatness of the technology itself, it’s the whole thing. All of the fawning. All of the pearl-clutching. It has reached a saturation point, and I am sick of it.
As we all know by now, AI is not really intelligence anyway. It’s a reinterpretation of something that has already been. A guess. A hypothesis. So the fact that tech companies and other businesses try to incorporate AI into their systems and their customer experiences, and then are upset that customers/users are frustrated by what is produced, just proves that these companies have not thought this technology through before hoisting it on their customers. Looking at you, Apple, in this regard.
Not only that, most end users don’t even know when the information they’re presented with is incorrect. When they ask the system a question or try to look up information, and the answer comes back as “authoritative”, hence they accept it as fact, but it’s actually not true or real, makes it even worse.
All of that to say, much like social networks and social media, AI should die in a fire. Immediately.
That’s just my opinion, I could be wrong.
