That’s why AI is being crammed into absofuckinglutely everything. It’s why the button you used to tap to start a new chat summons up an AI that takes seven taps to banish again – it’s so tech companies can tell Wall Street that people are “using AI” which means that their companies are still part of a growth industry and thus entitled to gigantic price-to-earnings ratios:
I’m not sure how new or innovative all these tricks are, I heard something equivalent to that ‘unicorn’ thing about Victorian era railway companies in London. But those spending numbers in 1 year are horrific, they could each build like hundreds of km of high speed rail and probably a handful of schools and hospitals (not that i’d want that lot involved in any of those things).
“. . .the position is serious when enterprise becomes the bubble on a whirlpool of speculation.”