Now is a good time to shut up about AI - FT Alphaville
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Several times a day, someone posts something enthusiastic on social media about how they’re using generative AI and gets ratioed. For example: Which caused an unnecessary amount of this kind of thing: It’s a problem, honestly. AI’s early adopters are computer people, and computer people are often of a certain type. Clive Thompson, in his 2019 book Coders, profiles them as puzzle addicts who often struggle to empathise with normies. Their religion is efficiency for efficiency’s sake. The pleasure they find in an elegant database merge solution may not be as widely shared as they assume.…
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