Silicon Valley
fromwww.nytimes.com
2 hours agoVideo: The Resistance to New Technologies
Public skepticism towards A.I. technologies stems from a lack of control and fear of job loss.
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They called out about half a dozen particular instances of what they considered to be bullshit technology. We were too busy laughing sympathetically to whip out a laptop to make notes, but as best as we can recall the sequence, they were: Containers Kubernetes The "Cloud" Anything at all "as a Service" The Blockchain - anything, everything, based on it And now, arguably the biggest and worst of all, "generative AI"