A radical idea - stop talking about things that don't exist like they do
If you’ve read me for a while you know that – when it comes to tech reporting/talking about tech – I have been around the block a few times. Talked about some hypes, cut some supposedly magic technologies down to size. Sometimes even defending or advocating for certain tech. After a while the patter...
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I’m sick of things being hyped on potential too.
VR is an example. (Michael Abrash predictions anyone?) Unfinished games are an example. (Multiplayer Cyberpunk 2077 anyone?)
VR is such an incredible thing for me because I somehow avoided any and all hype around it, then got to play around with some oculus thing at a conference and play Beat Saber and was like wow, this is really cool
And then you start reading people compare AI hype to VR hype and I'm just sitting there being like wait, was this ever supposed to be more than a Beat Saber platform? What did they claim it would do? Oh no.
What if AI was only ever meant to be the Akinator?
The ultimate purpose of AI was always to tell me what digit this is, anything else is just grift
that's obviously a b that had a phenomenal night out, and just found itself greeting the day from a garden somewhere
Cold fusion only needs another 10 years to bake, but then it’ll be awesome.