[dkdbejwi383]

> The government, or at least who ever is writing this report, seems to imagine "AI" as a uniform and distinct process, where you turn on the AI machine, electricity goes in and AI comes out

This is how a large chunk of the general public think of "AI" as well. They're just waiting for someone to flip the AI switch or add a bunch of `from ai import magically_do_everything` to products and services they use.

[fredley]

Don't blame them, this is how products are marketed and sold now, e.g. AI washing machines, AI microwaves, AI features in cars, AI home lighting. Of course, most of these things don't have anything a software engineer or computer scientist might reasonably call AI in - they're just using sensor data and (conventional) algorithms, the same way they have for decades, but AI is the buzzword now.

[netdevphoenix]

Can't blame them. OpenAI, Alphabet and co have been pushing this AI magic marketing in the last 3 years or so. This AI magic seems to be also fed to their investors if Sam Altman's statements are anything to go by. At some point, the AI musical chair game will end and many players will lose everything