PipfordOh god this is so believable. AI bros and Business Leaders have no interest in softer sciences, so they've Dunning-Krugered themselves into believing their googly-eyed autocomplete is a real boy
Steven Heywood@anandamide
This is easily the most plausible explanation of the current mania for "AI" in the tech world.
Personally I see it as no different to any of the many Popular Delusions history tells us about such as witch-hunting, tulip mania or the South Sea Bubble, and it is easily as wasteful and dangerous as any of those.