The big difference is that smart phones and centralized internet are somewhat useful. Smartphones at least. Centralized internet… meh, but maybe a dependency.

AI is useful in only very niche and intentional cases. A ‘generic’ LLM is pretty bad at almost everything.

If ‘AI’ had been sold more like: “Give us a year of data samples from your production line and we can use ML to optimize time and temperature based on current weather patterns…” (real world use case I was working in on 2019) etc. then they would have really made the world better. Instead, I have crappy clippy constantly reading my email and suggesting words I wasn’t going to type*.

• I don’t understand how corps accept the idea that their internal emails are no longer internal, since everything is sent to chatgpt/copilot/gemeni/etc as it’s created. Shouldn’t Legal have thrown a tantrum over this?!

Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth

Let me rephrase:

“Smart” entitled person says our product is not showing value, so we need to force people to use it more than we already are after years of cramming it down their throats.