I started working as a data scientist in 2019, and by 2021 I had realized that while the field was large, it was also largely fraudulent. Most of the leaders that I was working with clearly had not gotten as far as reading about it for thirty minutes despite insisting that things like, I dunno, the next five years of a ten thousand person non-tech organization should be entirely AI focused. The number of companies launching AI initiatives far outstripped the number of actual use cases. Most of the market was simply grifters and incompetents (sometimes both!) leveraging the hype to inflate their headcount so they could get promoted, or be seen as thought leaders.
And then some absolute son of a bitch created ChatGPT, and now look at us. Look at us, resplendent in our pauper's robes, stitched from corpulent greed and breathless credulity, spending half of the planet's engineering efforts to add chatbot support to every application under the sun when half of the industry hasn't worked out how to test database backups regularly. This is why I have to visit untold violence upon the next moron to propose that AI is the future of the business - not because this is impossible in principle, but because they are now indistinguishable from a hundred million willful fucking idiots.
I like this guy. :D
They've been having discussions about it for at least 2 decades, I remember there was one Japanese guy that made a robot that looked EXACTLY like him and got people to interact with it.
The premise was to see if people prefer robots/androids that look like other humans or if it were better there was a visible difference. There is a reason I'm less terrified of AI being made there when they're already looking at successful integration than in the West which is still on segregation of groups, also says a lot that they think they can integrate better with artificial intelligence than third worlders....actually with some tourists recently, the west isn't doing that much better..