Why Is There an AI Hype?
Why Is There an AI Hype?
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Lots of skeptics are writing lots of good things about the AI hype, but so far, I've encountered relatively few attempts to explain why it's happening at all. Here's my contribution, mostly based Philp Agre's work on the (so-called) internet revolution, which focuses less on the capabilities of the tech itself, as most in mainstream did (and still do), but on the role of a new technology in the ever-present and continuous renegotiation of power within human institutions.
AI is only pseudo useful right now and really needs to he targeted to a specific task to be practical and even then its usually not consistent enough to be useful so it needs a lot of funding probably to the tune of billions of dollars and several years to get there. That won't happen unless these companies developing AI get investors and you get investors by generating hype, that's where we are now. We are hyping the shit out of AI and sticking it in everything to see what stick, unfortunately the only thing that will come out of this is businesses providing their data that employees have done for AI to train on to replace those employees.
You could say the same about NFTs, blockchain and all of the other buzzword scams that came before it. It's like we've entered a cycle where every few years a new "revolutionary" technology comes out only to spill as much money out of investors and then disappear.
Of course I'm not saying the same will happen to AI (it's here to stay) but I wouldn't be surprised if in a couple years technobros start throwing away their money at some new toy. Maybe then we'll be able to talk about AI seriously without all the stupid hype surrounding it. Maybe.
Money, shareholders, capatilism, exploitation of others work online with little to no oversight and is extremely cheap compared to hiring people for it.
Typical American stuff basically