[hnlmorg]

> I simply cannot imagine ex. 2000 Apple/Steve Jobs falling for this.

I wouldnt be so quick to assume that. Let’s not forget that Jobs bought Siri and then integrated it into every platform they sold.

AI has been a buzzword for literally decades. It’s just exploding in popularity right now because the capabilities of GenAI have recently exploded.

It’s a little like how VR and AR has been around for decades. It’s just taken this long for the technology to make mixed reality a possibility for the masses.

[refulgentis]

Yeah, def not arguing my paycheck is thin air -- its that there's a surface level-only respect for it. "Eyewash", in baseball parlance.