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#Payoff from #AI projects is 'dismal', biz leaders complain


Source: https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/12/survey_ai_projects/

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Payoff from AI projects is 'dismal', biz leaders complain

No wonder most orgs are slowing their spending
Thomas Claburn (The Register)
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Noam Bergman
Noam Bergman
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World's smallest violin (built and played by AI).
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Richard
Richard
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Hahaha. Well ya. Marketing bullshit doesn't make things real.
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Adam Hunt
Adam Hunt
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Seems to be already there.

Of course this just proves that humans are as dumb as rocks and perhaps we deserve to be enslaved by machines.

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anyspace
anyspace
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Well that attitude will certainly help a few new churches along and keep people voting for warmongers...
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anyspace
anyspace
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May you find a way to feel justified giving back to the earth for this brief gift of life.
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David
David
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https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/

Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI?

Of course AI is a bubble. It has all the hallmarks of a classic tech bubble. Pick up a rental car at SFO and drive in either direction on the 101 – north to San Francisco, south to Palo Alto – and …
Locus Online
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David
David
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@Adam Hunt

https://www.wired.com/story/anthony-levandowski-artificial-intelligence-religion/

During our three-hour interview, Levandowski made it absolutely clear that his choice to make WOTF a church rather than a company or a think tank was no prank.


OK. I can guess what the W, T, and F stand for, but what about the O?

@Adam Hunt
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Adam Hunt
Adam Hunt
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It is "Way of the Future" - the name of his church, of course!
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pascal macaigne
pascal macaigne
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The aim of AI appart from $elling us another gadget is for a minority of individuals to control enslave all humanity for good. This will happen way before machines enslave humans.
In fact it has already started
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Adam Hunt
Adam Hunt
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In fact it has already started


I think starting an AI religion with the AI as a god kinda proves that point. The amazing thing here really is that these religions were started by humans, not by AIs themselves.

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Richard
Richard
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See, I'm more about finding novel analog/biological/digital computing methods to implement intelligence. So algae, bacteria, and yeast growing in semiconductive matrices the size of 50 gal drums all powered by sunlight and organic waste. But then I'm a knucklehead, not a pedigreed scientist.
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Adam Hunt
Adam Hunt
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I would support that, I think it has more potential.
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pascal macaigne
pascal macaigne
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The only point of AI would be to help humans to organize incredibly complicated tasks.
For instance I once read that one of the problems in Soviet union was to match supply and demand, anticipate needs and problems ahead. It'd be a piece of cake with today's tech. But of course AI was never meant to help humanity. One can only dream
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