The former is important, but attracts little attention from the tech & mainstream press, is not heavily marketed by major corporations to other corporations and the general public, and makes VCs fall asleep. Whereas the latter gets ALL the coverage, marketing, and gives VCs big fat boners. My comment expresses my bewilderment at this state of affairs (hence the "for some reason?"). You want to white-knight machine learning, expert systems and pattern recognition? Call VentureBeat, Andressen-Horowitz, PitchBook, and TechCrunch. And while you're at it, tell them to stop vaporizing genAI slop.

What's currently being marketed as AI reinforces that there's always someone who can do your job worse for cheaper

I'm just waiting for the "cheaper" part to change. Surely these VC's will want to see some ROI on the stupid amount of money these hosted models cost. There's no way the subscription fees being charged cover the actual cost of running the models, so something will have to give eventually

Well, I was trying to bring a little humor to the conversation by just saying at least as a silver lining is that this other stupid crap is gone now.

If the AI "revolution" never came, I bet a thread just like this one would exist for metaverse or whatever saying how it's destroying the internet. And think about it, entering an entire world just to hold this conversation where all users are known and conversations recorded...kind of like AI scraping.

You can see his it could get just as bad or worse. Hint: its not the technology that's the problem, its the companies behind them - those wouldn't be any different.

I'm not trying to downplay AI, I'm just being realistic of the world we live in and trying to not be so doom and gloom every second of the day.