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by vonnik 3065 days ago
Totally agree. This article contains very little that's new.

It criticizes Watson, but Watson was roundly debunked last year as far behind IBM's marketing machine.

It trots out the "teenagers & sex" quote, which frankly is applied to every new technology. "Teenagers & sex" belongs to a very small family of cliches that everyone in tech has heard. The fact that it gets used indiscriminately makes it mean very little with each new application.

And finally, I'll like to point out the irony of someone trotting out tired thoughts to get attention while criticizing supposedly overhyped tech. To the right, we have people making exaggeratedly positive claims about tech to grab your eyes, and to the left, we have their mirror image.