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Every time I see a new company preaching endlessly about 'AI' to address a non issue at this point is straight-up begging to VCs to fund their $0 revenue so-called 'tech startup'.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately marketing is everything. Engineers like to build nice shiny things without much of an eye on how to sell it. If you can slap "AI" on it and make some $, then why not? The end customer may not really care. Its not exactly like calling an apple "organic". Theres no certification process or consensus on what AI actually is or means.
We, the people doing the actual work, have a moral responsibility to resist our work being dishonestly marketed. And certainly a moral responsibility not to engage in it ourselves.
I remember when 'GANs' were 'marketed' as 'deepfakes' to the public and watched it enter the english lexicon.
I tried convincing the business developers and marketing for years that what we did was machine learning, applied statistics or gulp “data-driven” functionality - but no, only thing that worked was “ AI Engine”... hurray for throwing my PhD at the wind...
[0] git, that is. Yes, git is technically a blockchain.
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"Ok, we'll call it Quantum instead." /s
Artificial Intelligence – The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25530178 - Dec 2020 (120 comments)
The AI Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16873778 - April 2018 (161 comments)
Others?
Often the AI or machine learning that is being sold to their customers (or if it’s a startup, to their investors) is in fact a team or a group of teams creating static rules. If it is image recognition the they will often have a large team of manual reviewers. Yes there maybe some AI or machine learning models that are assisting in the decision making, but they are usually much less effective than people realize.
Today whenever I hear AI or machine learning, my default is to assume it is marketing speak.
I don’t doubt there are models, I just doubt their effectiveness. But saying “we use AI to do X”, sounds much better than saying, “we have a team of experts who help us do X really well”
With that said I have worked and continue to work with some amazing data scientist who really are pushing the limits of what can be done with machine learning.
Reminds me when X-rays first were discovered, everyone claimed their product contained them, including X-ray headache tablets, golf balls, stove polish, razor blades. https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/full/10.1148/rg.242035157 for some fun pictures. I won't be surprised when AI toothbrushes come out.
The Ad for the "x-ray stove polish" lists "cannot explode" as a feature which makes me wonder about their competitions polish
Exploding Stove Polish was apparently a problem. Gotta wonder what chemical it was causing the problem.