"For the last few years, startups have shamelessly re-branded rudimentary machine-learning algorithms as the dawn of the singularity, aided by investors and analysts who have a vested interest in building up the hype. Welcome to the artificial intelligence bullshit-industrial complex."
(https://gen.medium.com/the-bs-industrial-complex-of-phony-a-i-44bf1c0c60f8)
posted on June 25, 2019 02:45 PM by
u/dgerard
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posted after finding yet another twitter respondent who bought Yud
via Musk wholesale
I also liked:
The core feature of a B.S.-industrial complex is that every member of
the ecosystem knows about the charade, but is incentivized to keep
shoveling. It’s not so much that we reach a point where we convince
ourselves our bullshit is true; it’s that the difference between truth
and bullshit has become purely semantic.
For any given topic, there is a gap between the supply of what we
actually know and the demand for what we feel we need to know.
Everything that fills this gap is bullshit.
I’d take “artificial intelligence that is roughly as good as a
24-year-old analyst at Goldman Sachs with a big dataset and a few lines
of Adderall.” I doubt their stuff is actually that good, though.
posted after finding yet another twitter respondent who bought Yud via Musk wholesale
I also liked:
which is also the problem with blockchain
I’m using that one in the future.
I’d take “artificial intelligence that is roughly as good as a 24-year-old analyst at Goldman Sachs with a big dataset and a few lines of Adderall.” I doubt their stuff is actually that good, though.
/me checks other discussions tab. Hmm not linked in /ssc. Strange.
See also: A.I. Is Not as Advanced as You Might Think
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