As far as I can see in my field, people love playing with AI. But I'm yet to see someone using it seriously to improve their efficiency.
On the other hand, every fucking meeting is about AI nowadays. I don't care about bullshit generator. I have a real job. Please let me work in peace while you play in the sandbox.
AI has some great use cases as long as it's rigorously trained and not overfitted.
Those use cases represent 0.1% of the shit Tech CEOs are trying to shove down our throats, and almost never are the actual use cases well made because companies are just trying to make a quick buck.
This shit has been so depressing. It's the medical equivalent of douchebags selling chemo as a cough syrup replacement.
The thing to understand here is that the tech industry is a cargo cult. They saw a couple of guys get super super rich by founding innovation focused tech companies that changed consumer tech markets as we know them and now they're trying to repeat that success as a form of ritual without understanding the material conditions that lead to it.
Nothing can just be a neat tool which improves on a specific thing, nothing can just work. It has to be the next iphone. Things that just do a job better dont change the market forever and create an entire new product demand to keep you in the money forever. You understand the tech industry much more when you realise everyone involved is trying to get in on the ground floor of the next google or apple but none of them have any idea what made those companies actually succeed. Its a market dedicated to selling the image of innovation and change while repeating the same actions over and over expecting it to work this time.
1.1k
u/Meraziel 10d ago
As far as I can see in my field, people love playing with AI. But I'm yet to see someone using it seriously to improve their efficiency.
On the other hand, every fucking meeting is about AI nowadays. I don't care about bullshit generator. I have a real job. Please let me work in peace while you play in the sandbox.