• atetulo@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    AI is actually useful.

    The metaverse and NFTs aren’t.

    Your analogy is not a 1:1 representation of the situation and only serves to distract from the topic at hand.

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      1 year ago

      But there is a similarity, the hype pulls in all sorts of companies to blindly add buzzwords without even knowing how it might possibly apply to their product, even if it were the perfect realization of the ideal.

      Yes AI techniques obviously have utility. 90% of the spend is by companies that don’t even know what that utility might be. With that much noise, it’s hard to keep track of the value.

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        1 year ago

        But there is a similarity, the hype pulls in all sorts of companies to blindly add buzzwords without even knowing how it might possibly apply to their product

        Yes, I see what you are saying. I guess we can add ‘blockchain’ to that list, then.

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      1 year ago

      The person I responded to didn’t say AI was useful. They said that companies are doing financial analysis before investing. That simply isn’t true across the board.