It's just really unusual to hear some of my biggest "early adopter" friends filled with bile for AI. And well I'm right there with them. I'm irritated most by the dishonesty of the claims about what it can do. With "internet of things" the objection was not "you can't track your water bottle on the internet, it won't work the way you describe" it was more like "why would you want to do that?" and "your data will be sold to companies, you will be spied on"

Both proved to be correct.

@futurebird

I mean: With smart home stuff or bitcoin, it was mostly a "you do you" situation (except when blockchain started to get mentioned at business meetings, to the loud groaning of the more tech-affine people).

The AI hype reminds me more of being surrounded by diehard Apple fans:
They do annoying stuff and then tell you all about it. And then start to criticize you because you don't do the same thing.

"You should use a Mac because it makes you more creative and working becomes sooo much easier."

"You should use AI because that way you are done in half the time so you can do exciting stuff like work even more."

@wakame @futurebird After I switched a certain workplace to Moodle and saved them millions they had been paying Adobe, a high-school educated director who allegedly got that position thanks to connections told me to "put Moodle on blockchain so that people can't cheat on exams".

ETA: Don't get me wrong, many competent people only have high school education, but for a director in that company a master's degree was a requirement.

#nepotism #cronyism #blockchain #hype