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AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decisionmaking (hermit-tech.com)
submitted 2 days ago by abbadon420@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.

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[–] HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

This matches all too well with what Baldur Bjarnason writes in "The Intelligence Illusion".

[–] XLE@piefed.social 11 points 1 day ago

Warnings about it being “early days” and “hallucinations” both anthropomorphise the bot and provide ready-made excuses for when one of its constant failures are noticed.

Three years later and the "early days" routine is still going strong. Who would have thought?