Cory Doctorow on Nostr: The promises of AI are grossly oversold, including the promises Google makes, like ...

The promises of AI are grossly oversold, including the promises Google makes, like its claim that its AI had discovered millions of useful new materials. In reality, the number of useful new materials Deepmind had discovered was *zero*:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/23/maximal-plausibility/#reverse-centaurs

This is true of *all* of AI's most impressive demos. Often, "AI" turns out to be low-waged human workers in a distant call-center pretending to be robots:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/31/neural-interface-beta-tester/#tailfins

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