Between the Booms: AI in Winter – Communications of the ACM

Isn't it enough that clueless marketers who get their Tech knowledge from businessinsider and bloomberg are constantly harping on about AI.

Seems we as a community have resigned or given up in this battle against common sense. Maybe long ago. Still there should be some form of moderation penalizing these shill posts that only glorify AI as being the future, ... the same way that not everything about crypto or the blockchain ended up on the FP. Seems with AI we're looking the other way and are OK with it?

Or maybe it's me.

AI is really neat. I don’t understand how a business model that makes money pops out on the other end.

At least crypto cashed out on NFTs for a while.

Tractors and farming.

By turning what is traditionally a labour intensive product into a capital intensive one.

For now, the farmers who own tractors will beat the farmers who need to hire, house and retain workers (or half a dozen children).

This goes well for quite some time, where you can have 3 people handle acres & acres.

I'll be around explaining how coffee beans can't be picked by a tractor or how vanilla can't be pollinated with it.