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I think one helpful trick when thinking about AI hype is to replace mentions of "AI" with "Blockchain" to see how silly it all sounds.

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[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or Internet of Things, to make it sound like 2016.

[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh! Oh! What about THE METAVERSE!?!

Man fuck the metaverse. Everyone I met hyping it hadn't used VR once in their life.

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You met someone hyping the metaverse? Do you hang out in Menlo Park?

[–] Baggie@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

No, just a few people in corporate culture in the early 2020s. Too much time in linkedin and not doing useful work.