The worst kind of tech hype is when something is portrayed as inevitable and unstoppable, with criticism or doubt blithely dismissed as "they don't get it".

Just because a giant tech company pours vast amounts of money down a toilet, that doesn't mean the toilet is going to start spewing gold coins into the air.

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My buddy the PhD information scientist has an interesting take on LLMs ("AI"). LLMs are developed by coders. LLMs have a transformative effect on how code is developed. To a considerable extent, the importance of LLMs to other fields of activity is being over-hyped by the people who develop them, because LLMs are super important *to them*.

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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)}