"so far, the consumer applications for #AI are simultaneously underwhelming and dystopian."
which is EXACTLY, EXACTLY the same thing we were saying no more than 3/4 years ago about the Internet of Things, for the same, equally valid reasons:
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/10/business/ai-dystopia-silicon-valley-nightcap/index.html
“But tech companies, faced with the most powerful computing innovation in a generation, are running around like kids who just found their dad’s gun.”
It’s investors and stockholders that are to blame. It’s not Apple who wants AI, they’ve invested over a decade in it, it’s the stockholders and other idiots.
OpenAI (who does it so wrong Scarlett Johansson may sue them) has proved the PT Barnum quote.
I played a few weeks with it and found it wanting.
@feloneouscat of course. But in practice, what''s the difference?
It’ll be abandoned as soon as the next shiney think captures investors or stockholders eye OR the cost of AI starts affecting profits OR the cost of regulation affects profits.
Consumers don’t want AI in everything. The drivers of AI ***think*** we do.