logoalt Hacker News

marcosdumaytoday at 5:20 PM1 replyview on HN

I really like the idea of AI being the brand of whatever we are hyping so much that will inevitably fail spectacularly and turn the entire society against it for a couple of decades.

The name basically means anything a computer can do, and has meant almost anything a computer does at some point. So it's not a very useful word anyway, no loss in letting marketers use it to whatever Tormentus Nexus they are working towards.


Replies

joquarkytoday at 6:23 PM

As an aside: why have we allowed marketing people to take over?

show 2 replies