▲ 1205 ▼ Execs Confused and Horrified by the Huge AI Bills After Thinking They Could Replace Workers for Free (futurism.com) submitted 4 months ago by FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world 180 comments fedilink hide all child comments 🤣 6
[+] trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 14 points 4 months ago (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago It happens every couple of decades with AI. Since it's a broader field than most people think, we have a pretty long cycle of a new development looking exciting, people getting way too excited and optimistic, the development being exactly what it was promised to be, and then people getting disappointed and avoiding anything with the AI label. Then we decide that because we're used to this new thing, it can be used in stuff as was originally appropriate but it no longer qualifies as AI, because "that's not AI, it's just ___". permalink fedilink source parent [–] Shanmugha@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago Oh yeah. I can sign under every word you wrote permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago It happens every couple of decades with AI. Since it's a broader field than most people think, we have a pretty long cycle of a new development looking exciting, people getting way too excited and optimistic, the development being exactly what it was promised to be, and then people getting disappointed and avoiding anything with the AI label. Then we decide that because we're used to this new thing, it can be used in stuff as was originally appropriate but it no longer qualifies as AI, because "that's not AI, it's just ___". permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Shanmugha@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago Oh yeah. I can sign under every word you wrote permalink fedilink source parent