every company right now

- This looks like this guy is being force fed a spoon full of mdma rocks and I want to be committed to this specific nursing home when I’m old.
  
  Me too, but maybe not several gram's of it

Remember when that janitorial company changed its name to include the term CRYPTO and it's stock went through the roof and the SEC investigated them for fraud?
I can't find the story unfortunately
- Could it be related to Long Blockchain Corp?

AI is the new IoT. You're gonna see it jammed into shit it has no business being in. And it's gonna cause major problems 10 years from now.
- Yeah, smart washing machine i have just complicates process for no reason, i mean, if i gonna launch or stop machine then i should be near so i can unload clothes to dry, and if I'm near, then why the hell I'm needed wifi smartphone controlled one? Sadly it was the cheapest one for my size (amount of clothes) requirements

No no, i said sell it to me, not make me want to huck it into the nearest bin!!!
- It shocks you when you make a grammatical or spelling mistake.

What a company calls "AI powered" in fact is stolen data and or underpaid workers on the periphery of capitalism
- Or some Indian guy clicking images/answering questions for 3 cents a set.
  
  yeah, underpaid workers on the periphery of capitalism

It’s like the late ‘90s where they tried to connect every common activity to the internet, like bar codes in the newspaper for coupons online.
They got it “right” when they stopped trying to make non-internet things direct you to the internet and just moved the non-internet things to the internet.
Now they’re trying to cram AI into everything. What’s the next step…moving your brain into the AI?
- Moving the “AI” into your brain, rather

Yup. They don't understand what it is or what it does. All they know is that it makes even dumber venture capitalists open their wallets.
- The PR Marketing guys sure don't, but the actual Machine Learning and AI computer scientists sure do!
  I'd wager a lot of marketing people only skim the basic surface of what it does and just plaster it to their supervisors without you know.. working with the ACTUAL technical experts in that field.
  Plus they think the non techie is a dum dum who don't know no better.

"It has a smooth finish, virtually indestructible, and it writes upside-down." [None of these will be true] "Also, with our Ink Anytime subscription service, you'll never run out of ink! It's free..." [for the first six months] "for our lowest tier..." [three lines of text per day] "with an option to upgrade to a higher tier anytime." [Puts pen in pocket] "We're offering pre-orders with a $5 non-refundable deposit, with delivery expected sometime in the next six months depending on how soon you get on the waitlist." [Two years until you give up and just let us keep your deposit] "So sign up now!"
- Ah, early pioneers in PaPaaS (Pen and Paper as a Service).

The answer to the original riddle is "Sure, can I have your phone to make a demonstration. Great. I'll sell the phone and pen back as a package deal for $100."
- This is theft of the phone, so it does accurately demonstrate how corporations work.
- I always thought a good one was to put the pen in your pocket and refuse to give it back. Make him name his price. Clearly it's yours, not his. Otherwise how could you sell it to him?
  
  To a person like that a mere pen is basically worthless as a hostage.

There was some LLM-powered pen in the makings, I haven't heard about it since. Was part of the Rabbit/AI Pin style of AI junk.

I’d buy an Al powered pencil though:
- There are pencils like the Uni Kuru Toga line which have a motor to create auto-rotating lead, and the Pentel Orenz Nero 0.2mm which constantly pushes out lead so you don't have to keep clicking. So... close enough?

My piece of shit phone case says "AI Autofocus" on it near the holes for the camera lenses and it's ridiculous
- Chinese OEMs love to do this for some reason, my phone says"ULTRA PREMIUM" right near the flash.
  I already bought the device Xiaomi, you can stop advertising it to me now lol.

I had to talk to some company's chatbot yesterday that was just if/else powered. That sure was cumbersome to do. It couldn't even tell me the company's mailing address.
- I was forced to use bing while searching for some info on the internet, when I'd click on what looked like a useful result, I would instead get CoPilot slowly summarizing the info I needed back to me, and obscuring the source... Who the fuck though that was a good idea?
  
  That's a shame, because bing was become pretty decent as a search engine lately
- That’s when they don’t want you to bother them with shit you could’ve read on their website (or a more restricted FAQ), but also care about not telling you bullshit. So rather than going full AI with hallucinations and what not, they give you predetermined answers in a “friendly” AI-ish way.

The AI arm race has done so much damage to the environment and is creating more ewaste also. It sucks.
- I've seen a DankPods video about an "AI powered" rice cooker, turns out it was a marketing tactic to sell more of them. It's actually just an ordinary rice cooker.