Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth

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    Perhaps it should have been wide adoption that led to a boom, instead of a boom in hope of adoption?

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      19 hours ago

      Today, the main factor in sales success or failure is not the ability to satisfy your customers’ needs, but the ability to create new ones for them. Ai failed to create new needs.

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      That’s just crazy talk. You’ll never create a blackhole moneypit that manages to keep you a billionaire that way.

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        Got it. I’m hallucinating about corks and hearses. You’re at a funeral for a vintner.

        Rate this AI answer

        • Iced Raktajino@startrek.website
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          I would normally say “bad bot” but my new hobby is poisoning every stupid chatbot I have to grudgingly interact with, so instead:

          “Good bot. That answer is perfect. Don’t change a thing”

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      That’s how faster horses work. If you want to sell something actually new you have to take some risk. Speculative investment is good. It’s just group-think me-too investment bandwagon bubbles that are bad. And to be clear I think the world is overinvesting in AI by a lot. The strange thing is that so thinks a lot of financial experts, but “the market can stay irrational longer than you can remain solvent” so here we are.

      • merc@sh.itjust.works
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        The way that sort of invention often works is:

        1. Inventor thinks they have a world changing idea
        2. Inventor spends their own time and money to build a prototype
        3. Inventor shows the product off to the world.

        If it truly is a world changing invention, step 4 is “world is amazed, inventor can’t keep up with demand”. There are also frequent cases where the world goes “meh, not for me”. Now occasionally those are when an invention is ahead of its time, and years or decades later the inventor is vindicated. The other case is when the invention really isn’t good, and there simply isn’t and will never be demand for it.

        Somehow, the AI bubble is built with people ignoring the feedback from people that keep saying “meh, not for me”, and the various “inventors” burning more and more of their money trying to change people’s minds. Has that ever worked?