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by z3c0 1631 days ago
It isn't a "solution looking for a problem" anymore than any technology repeatedly shoehorned into unnecessary situations. NoSQL and AI were deployed in the same overzealous fashion, with the latter producing almost as much snake oil as the blockchain scene.

If anything, it's the FOMO-ing developers of these techs that are looking for problems.
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shafyy 1631 days ago
> NoSQL and AI were deployed in the same overzealous fashion, with the latter producing almost as much snake oil as the blockchain scene.

You must be kidding when you say that AI produced as much snake oil as cryptos. Sure, there were/are startups using AI as a selling point when there is not much behind, but in most cases AI actually solves real world problems and adds value. Cryptos are stricly a negative-sum game and ponzi schemes.

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moron4hire 1631 days ago
I wouldn't say "in most cases", but I would also point out that AI has probably not been at the center of quite so many scams.
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z3c0 1631 days ago
I am not kidding. I work in the AI industry and I'd go so far as so say that less than half of deployed AI is properly tuned and not overfit. Tons of companies rushed to market half-baked "AI" solutions built by the cheapest "data scientist" they could find.

Just because it's corporate snake-oil doesn't mean it isn't snake oil.

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