[marginalia_nu]

This is directed at AI marketing in general: "AI" has been used to market so much nonsense it's probably becoming a problem communicating actual interesting uses of AI. I very much get a dot com vibe off it, like nobody on the team knows how it works but we're sure we're gonna be rich somehow! In my head, I've begun substituting AI with "wizards" when I read it.

It's very much the sort of problems crypto is having. So many grifters actual interesting uses of the technology are very hard to identify and take seriously.

[maxwells-daemon]

I guess so, but the fact of the matter is that ML/AI is actually, right now, doing useful things that would have been impossible 10 years ago. I don't think I could say the same about crypto (as distinct from cryptography).

[q-big]

> "AI" has been used to market so much nonsense it's probably becoming a problem communicating actual interesting uses of AI.

On the other hand: if the people who do serious work in this area don't call out this nonsense, they must accept that their (serious) work becomes devalued.

> It's very much the sort of problems crypto is having. So many grifters actual interesting uses of the technology are very hard to identify and take seriously.

Here, the same holds.

[maximus-decimus]

It's a lost cause, you have to pick a new word.

"Diet" was used for women's food product to the point that men didn't want to buy anything with "diet" on it, so CocaCola created coke zero just for men instead of trying to make them drink "diet" coke. They knew it was a lost battle.