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Weird I thought the ChatBot stuff was actually a bit more legit than these other things. Like, not in that it was actual AI or anything but that it worked well enough that actual proper capitalists, not just VC "nouveau" riche dorks, were considering using it for actual stuff, or at least trying to.
A decent amount of people on the lefty web seemed worried about it
The chatbots are being used as cover to lay off a bunch of workers, and will further shittify the service sector, but I'm slowly becoming convinced that it will fizzle out soon once its clear it won't be what they have convinced themselves it is.
VR and crypto are still around, but neither are the groundbreaking "world will be fundamentally changed forever" technologies they were convinced of at the time.
i don't think these are going away soon so i wouldn't consider it 'fizzled', maybe it'll lose hype but i don't think it's going to be a comparable debacle to 'metaverse' bullshit
There was that news article recently where a chat bot told a guy a completely false policy, and the company tried to say they're not accountable for what the boy says.
That's about the tier I expect chat bots to operate at
Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot
Soon we're gonna get generative ai + formal verification for things like software development, and truck drivers will be entirely replaced. It's for sure a big deal. The next decades gonna be fun
Oh, the thing Elon predicted will happen "within the next year" repeatedly for the last ten years will finally happen for real? This is starting to feel like that in-joke about fusion reactors.
that's precisely the problem, it works a little too well for them, and they have the money to use it against you.