Overselling AI is what creates AI winters
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between uh the way that AI can be has been sold in the way that it actually functions. Yeah. And when and this is how you create. Every single time, this is how the AI winters have been created is by selling it as something that it is not.
Episode 260: Tennessee Trickshot (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:46:15 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Every AI winter has come from selling the technology as something it isn't. We layer ideas of knowledge and understanding on top of it and anthropomorphize it, so non-technical people expect what it can't deliver. People like Dave are left explaining the tech from the ground up every time someone asks 'couldn't we use AI to...'.
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Episode 260: Tennessee Trickshot (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:53:36 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
Because what we do is we layer these things on top of one another. We've layered this idea of, quote, knowledge and understanding, and we anthropomorphize it into a thing.
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