• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.spaceOP
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    4 months ago

    | AI becoming a major industry(AI)

    Yes, but in the same way that tax shelters and carbon offsetting are major industries. All the useful things done by “AI” tend to happen outside of the hype mills and be relatively boring statistical models like autocomplete, which nobody points to as a sign of the coming Computer God.

    | Computers built into eyeglasses(google glass)

    They build single-use computers into pregnancy tests. They’re powerful enough to run DOOM, despite being doomed to immediately become e-waste. Is this a sign of the imminent Singularity as well?

    | PCs would be able to answer questions wirelessly (search engines and the internet)

    Someone built a radio into a computer? Really? I wonder why nobody thought of that before.