01.29.23
Gemini version available ♊︎The Hey Hype Machine
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AI Hype in the Media
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Summary: “Hey Hype” or “Hey Hi” (AI) has been dominating the press lately and a lot of that seems to boil down to paid-for marketing; we need to understand what’s truly going on and not be distracted by the substance-less hype
THE thing I’ve dubbed “Hey Hi” (about 2-3 years ago when the media was losing its mind over it) Andy has called “Hey Hype” and this morning we published his article about this phenomenon.
Almost nothing that’s presented in the media about it can be considered new. Even the chatbots are old; the only novel thing about them is the size of the set they were trained on, probably owing to Microsoft’s over-provisioned and underutilised ‘Azure’ (even Microsoft now openly admits to its shareholders there’s a “slowdown” in Clown Computing).
“Expect many more Microsoft layoffs later this year.”My thoughts in the above video are personal and Andy’s article stands on its own. We extended it a bit this morning with a paragraph he wished to add.
Due to personal ordeals (covered in passing in the video above) we’ve not produced many articles and videos lately, but that will change soon. We’re building back better (BBB) and when the Sirius ‘Open Source’ series is over we hope to produce about 10 articles/videos per day.
We’ve been reading many rumours about Microsoft layoffs (what’s to come, who’s affected etc.) and it sounds far worse than the Microsoft-connected media nonchalantly puts it. Expect many more Microsoft layoffs later this year [1, 2]. All that “Hey Hype” is the media lends to the delusion about Microsoft having a bright future based on perceived leadership in something. █
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