[watwut]

> They create value for many people, which is why they've been adopted so quickly.

A lot of that adoption is completely useless crap tho. Like ai in vacuum cleaner that ads absolutely nothing useful to anything. AI buttons intentionally at places I randomly click at, so that I am forced to open it. Google search that defaults to ai, so that we have to use it after then nerfed real search.

There are useful usages of LLMs. But huge bulk of the adoption is companies realizing they wont get investors money if they dont add ai button, it does not have to be useful.

[SoftTalker]

Yeah there's a huge part of it that is "the investors want tulips, so we will plant tulips"

[tharmas]

Thanks. You're comment made me laugh.

[bryanlarsen]

Which happens for every new technology. Blue LED's in everything, capacitive buttons on everything, car buttons replaced with ipads, et cetera. Some of the random placements will prove out useful but most won't and will disappear.

[doctorwho42]

Yes, but corporations didn't bet the Capex of the entire GDP of the world on it

[watwut]

Frankly, no, totally not. And not nearly to this extend. I have seen enough of "new technologies" to know that it was not as crazy at it is now with AI. The hysterical doom trolling, the hype, the tokenmaxxing, the personification of it, all of that is off the charts compared to anything I have seen in the past.