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Its not even microsoft its everyone and their grandmother pushing AI this AI that crap. Really language model this language model that, but we've perverted what AI actually means to the public already so that's great too for technological literacy purposes.

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To be fair, customers are part of the hype feedback loop. I have seen actual conversations with non-tech workers that boil down to "when we ask these people what they want AI to do, they say they don't know, but boy do they get excited every time we mention adding AI"

The new "blockchain". We don't know what problems we want to solve, but we sure know that we need to solve them with AI!

Are customers really asking for AI soda flavors, tho? https://us.coca-cola.com/products/coke-creations/y3000-limit...

They did at one point ask for cosmetics with thorium and radium[1], so who knows.

[1] http://museumofradium.co.uk/tho-radia/

smacking AI on anything is probably an easy promotion for the next couple years

Ding! We have a winner. It is exactly that. No different really from 1999 products slapping Internet on everything or 2020 ones inserting crypto. Most importantly of all, its what investors and stockholders want to see now, and they will punish the stock price of anything that doesnt have an AI strategy.

I wonder if they just pasted their recipe into ChatGPT and asked “how can I make this taste better?”

I saw post in this general purpose forum where this guy claimed he asked chatgpt to learn about cnc-milling machines and material properties and produce g-code to mill a gear.

People were replying "I dont understand, but thats cool!" etc.

I checked his code and it did circle with G3 and then it did "finishing pass" which was also circle by rotating the chuck or A-axle. When I asked him about it, he just said "Oh, I didn't look at the code"

Using AI customer service chatbots really is a hoot. The most egregious examples they add an ai autocomplete service to your replies. So the thing asks you for your email and in the textbox its so very helpfully prefilled bob@example.com that you now need to overwrite with your actual email. Pretty fun to think of the resources consumed delivering this experience too

I mean sure it's "everybody" but renaming Edge to Edge: AI Browser (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft....) is more over the top than most.

Good lord, that's just ridiculous

“It’s toasted”

Not really, it’s literally mostly Microsoft shoehorning AI everywhere and rebranding everything into Microsoft Azure CoPilot <insert shitty product here>

Everyone had similar complaints about the cloud and USB, WiFi.

Operating systems before that. DSLs for configuration.

Circle of tech life, Simba.

What does the "AI" button on the keyboard do that compares to universal data and power ports or standardized secure wireless internet?

Apple, to their credit, hasn't announcing some generative-AI powered project. Yet. I'd like to think they have an Amish-like attitude to tech fads... hence why they never had a foldable come to market.

They actually have, but they generally refer to the technology by its more technical terms. Instead of saying "generative ai", they'll say "transformer based predictive text". They have a few things (keyboard, camera, photos app, and some others) that are actually using generative AI but they don't refer to it as such.

And as for the folding phone, I think they couldn't build one to their standards. I like the concept but there's a reason they've stayed relatively niche in the market.

Yes, they have. They haven't announced much in the way of concrete products/features, but they have announced an effort to stuff iOS full of unspecified generative AI ”stuff”, much centered on Apple’s own in-house LLM, and put lots of resources behind it.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-10-22/what-i...

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