Comment Re:3/4 (Score 1) 36
I hate marketing and sales drivel as much as you do, but it's wholly the wrong thing to focus on. Ads gonna ad, marketeers gonna marketeer, you're not going to stop that without fundamentally changing our economic system. And what of it? What are you actually going to achieve by 'fighting' marketing assholes via comments in this community?
I am not exaggerating here: We are at the advent of the next step in the evolution of intelligent life. We always knew it would happen at some point in the future (we're pretty much naked apes, after all), but very few people expected it to come so soon (including me). I'm not saying it is tomorrow, but it might very well be within the next ten years. Within my (expected) lifetime for sure. Seeing this community of intelligent and (previously) well-reasoned people looking away from the thing that is obviously happening before our eyes makes me sad and angry. And afraid. Because the marketing drones and the general public sure as fuck aren't capable of or going to improve our chances of dealing well with what is coming.
Dealing well with it starts with seeing the state of technology for what it is and what it can become (soon). Mindlessly and jadedly calling it "useless chatbots", "overblown hype", "statistical parrots", "artificial stupidity", etc. (as 80% of the comments on every fucking Slashdot post on AI do) is just a bad psychological defense mechanism that creates a false sense of security.