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AI Is Starting to Look Like the Dot Com Bubble (futurism.com)

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As the AI market continues to balloon, experts are warning that its VC-driven rise is eerily similar to that of the dot com bubble.

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[-] yata@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

The thing is a lot of people are not using for that. They think it is a living omniscient sci-fi computer who is capable of answering everything, just like they saw in the movies. Noone thought that about keyboard auto-suggestions.

And with regards to people who aren't very knowledgeable on the subject, it is difficult to blame them for thinking so, because that is how it is presented to them in a lot of news reports as well as adverts.

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

They think it is a living omniscient sci-fi computer who is capable of answering everything

Oh that's nothing new:

On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

Charles Babbage

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