The worst kind of tech hype is when something is portrayed as inevitable and unstoppable, with criticism or doubt blithely dismissed as "they don't get it".
Just because a giant tech company pours vast amounts of money down a toilet, that doesn't mean the toilet is going to start spewing gold coins into the air.
p.p.s. Special mention to Apple for spending over $10 billion on the Apple Car and ending up with zero to show for it:
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/02/28/apple-car-10-billion-spent/
They avoided "here to stay" headlines by simply never releasing the product they'd sunk $10,000,000,000.00 into making.
All big companies make really bad bets, even the largest prestige projects can end up being a total waste of time and money which are abandoned and forgotten. There is never an inevitable success from anyone.
Some journalists have real difficulty believing that multiple giant companies can make the same huge mistake all at once, despite lots of examples from the past few years.
@alcinnz @FediThing Such is an exercise in trying to disprove "the future." I understand it deeply and I disapprove of it, is an oxymoron in such person's perspective. In that regard they are like conspiracy nuts sending you a video, that convinced them, believing it will convince any reasonable person. They are reasonable after all.
The thought of their lack of insight, superior competencies of the person they are trying to convince or differences in political/ethical positions does not materialize. An odd, highly egocentric manner many adopted and need to unlearn if they want to be the rational people they view themselves as.
@alcinnz look, you just said all those things I don't understand about The Thing. Clearly you're an expert on the old world but are so bogged down in the details that you can't see the forest for the trees anymore. I'm such a Big Picture Thinker, trust me, this is gonna be yuuge.
:S
I don't understand how so many journalists are treating AI/LLM as a "done thing" when it is so clearly broken with fundamental problems.
Yeah, that's the most concerning thing. The "google plus is here to stay" article claims that it must succeed because Google is pouring so many resources into it.
Maybe some people are so convinced by the wisdom of markets, they cannot comprehend the existence of bubbles?
@FediThing but sometimes you look back in time and most of the stuff you use today were deemed hype when they launched.
Even as a kid in the eighties I rolled my eyes when grownups called video games a hype 😉
@FediThing The 3D TV one hurts a little, it was cool! (but expensive to make content for...)
With the "metaverse" I'm sure it'll stick around, it just won't be Meta's. If you have no furries on your platform something has gone wrong...
@FediThing "NFTs are here to stay"
Let me laugh even harder next to my Bitcoin, oh wait! 😂
Well, satellites and microchips did work out in the end, didn't they? /s
@FediThing I agree that we don’t have to accept things as the new “status quo”. It not just “how the world is now”.
It does get really hard to avoid AI when it’s being shoved down your throat. I have no control over how big tech put it into products but I still have to use those products, unlike when crypto was itself the new tool that I could choose to use or not.
It’s the deep integration that hurts choice
Yes, definitely. Also, it implies a deep insecurity if they feel the need to say something is "here to stay".
@FediThing I am reminded of this puff piece from 2018: https://www.siliconrepublic.com/careers/david-wachsman-blockchain-ireland
"You’re going to work in blockchain whether you want to or not".
I think Google originally took the "Circles" idea from Diaspora, which is still around but unfortunately not being developed much nowadays... 🙁
@FediThing >that doesn't mean the toilet is going to start spewing gold coins into the air.
hehehe... *golden shower*.
Blindsighted by Say's law
@FediThing I wish Google+ had been here to stay.
Or maybe I don't; fedi might not have happened if it was still around. ...but it didn't suck; they just killed it for no good reason.
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