Morten Juhl-Johansen on Nostr: " [AI is] like a restaurant selling granite rocks for dessert. Nobody will buy them ...
" [AI is] like a restaurant selling granite rocks for dessert. Nobody will buy them or eat them—so the product fails miserably. But if a popular restaurant adds a dollar to the meal price, and gives every customer a rock with their bill—well, then they can say that:
* Every customer gets rocks for dessert.
* Every customer pays for it.
* Their business is more profitable because of the tasty granite rocks.
This is how AI accounting works in Silicon Valley."
#quote Ted Gioia: The Force-Feeding of AI on an Unwilling Public
(
https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-force-feeding-of-ai-on-an-unwilling)
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