penningtron wrote: Fri Mar 28, 2025 8:07 am

andyman wrote: Fri Mar 28, 2025 6:16 am The current AI hype is 95% just marketing bullshit/scam to sell whatever crappy software or service companies are putting out.

The business side of tech is convinced this is the thing we gotta do now. Every fuckin' meetup is Leveraging AI to Enhance Client Relationships or shit like that.

This is all so true. Every fucking trade show/conference I attend (related to robots) is all about the fucking AI. Your presentation proposal won't get accepted unless it has something to do with AI. So stupid.

Even worse: interviewing for tech companies where they start to talk (with pride) about what their company does - and it's just an existing process + AI (life coaching but with AI, planning but with AI, data merging but with AI).

I always follow by asking "if you took AI out of the process how different would your product/service be? Why is it needed here?".

Emperor's clothes.

jfv wrote: Fri Mar 28, 2025 8:20 am

penningtron wrote: Fri Mar 28, 2025 8:07 am

andyman wrote: Fri Mar 28, 2025 6:16 am The current AI hype is 95% just marketing bullshit/scam to sell whatever crappy software or service companies are putting out.

The business side of tech is convinced this is the thing we gotta do now. Every fuckin' meetup is Leveraging AI to Enhance Client Relationships or shit like that.

This is all so true. Every fucking trade show/conference I attend (related to robots) is all about the fucking AI. Your presentation proposal won't get accepted unless it has something to do with AI. So stupid.

a robot trade show fixated on AI in 2025?
I’m not surprised. I mean… yeah

hbiden@onlyfans.com wrote: Fri Mar 28, 2025 1:44 pm

jfv wrote: Fri Mar 28, 2025 8:20 am

penningtron wrote: Fri Mar 28, 2025 8:07 am

The business side of tech is convinced this is the thing we gotta do now. Every fuckin' meetup is Leveraging AI to Enhance Client Relationships or shit like that.

This is all so true. Every fucking trade show/conference I attend (related to robots) is all about the fucking AI. Your presentation proposal won't get accepted unless it has something to do with AI. So stupid.

a robot trade show fixated on AI in 2025?
I’m not surprised. I mean… yeah

Obviously it's relevant. I'm not saying that it isn't.

But it's like they have forgotten about everything else that is relevant to robots.

And many of the people they have speaking about AI have NO FUCKING CLUE what they are talking about.

To be honest, many of these trade shows aren't really worth the time of a technical expert. It's mostly marketing/sales/management folks trying to make themselves feel relevant and important. Like LinkedIn.

jfv wrote: Fri Mar 28, 2025 1:56 pm

hbiden@onlyfans.com wrote: Fri Mar 28, 2025 1:44 pm

jfv wrote: Fri Mar 28, 2025 8:20 am

This is all so true. Every fucking trade show/conference I attend (related to robots) is all about the fucking AI. Your presentation proposal won't get accepted unless it has something to do with AI. So stupid.

a robot trade show fixated on AI in 2025?
I’m not surprised. I mean… yeah

Obviously it's relevant. I'm not saying that it isn't.

But it's like they have forgotten about everything else that is relevant to robots.

And many of the people they have speaking about AI have NO FUCKING CLUE what they are talking about.

To be honest, many of these trade shows aren't really worth the time of a technical expert. It's mostly marketing/sales/management folks trying to make themselves feel relevant and important. Like LinkedIn.

Haha I can imagine so.
I lean toward the “resistance is futile” stance. Neither crap nor n/c. Just asking pointed questions like fm andyman.
Because ignoring it won’t make it go away. Might as well harness it.

Was just speaking with a good friend who works in AI for an insurance company. Soon her team - which she leads - has to present a project they've all been working on to a buncha vice presidents and stuff. I was trying to get the gist of what their app does. They call it YODA (your own data analyst) and in my search online trying to suss exactly what it does I found another YODA (your own data analytics). She wasn't happy about there being another YODA. I'm imagining a West Side Story battle but with data analysts.

I just had to prove I'm not a robot selecting in a 3x3 grid all of the images containing taxis. One image was very clearly a yellow Audi roadster type car, with no indication it was a taxi for hire (lacked all symbols indicating such), so I did not select it. This was incorrect, as it told me to keep going. I selected that image and it let me through. I suppose I proved I'm not a robot, but I question whether this algorithm "knew" that car was not a taxi or was "tricking" me in some other way.