[Allison Morrow at CNN]

It's refreshing to see this kind of AI skepticism in a major outlet:

"Apple, like every other big player in tech, is scrambling to find ways to inject AI into its products. Why? Well, it’s the future! What problems is it solving? Well, so far that’s not clear! Are customers demanding it? LOL, no. In fact, last year the backlash against one of Apple’s early ads for its AI was so hostile the company had to pull the commercial.

[...] Large language models are fascinating science. They are an academic wonder with huge potential and some early commercial successes, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude. But a bot that’s 80% accurate [...] isn’t a very useful consumer product."

I'm more than ready for the hype cycle to come to its conclusion. Are there some interesting use cases for AI? Sure. Should the ethical, functional, environmental, and contextual issues with current AI vendors give us all pause at the very least? Absolutely.

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