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What's Really Artificial About AI is AI Itself (inthesetimes.com)

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"The phrase artificial intelligence is a marketing term that is used to sprinkle some magic fairy dust that brings the venture capital dollars."

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[–] bignose@programming.dev 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

a marketing term that is used to sprinkle some magic fairy dust that brings the venture capital dollars.

Like “metaverse” before it. And “blockchain” before that.

Whatever magic phrase will unlock the purse strings of those who control the money, know nothing about where to invest it, and expect unreasonable monopoly returns.