ARE WE BEING DUPED INTO THINKING AI IS THE NOVELTY OF THE YEAR?
This is a strange world we are living in. Even garbage collection companies are now claiming to use AI! I kid you not. Everybody is in, just like during Y2K, ISO Standards, the dot com craze, Carbon credits, SEO, blockchain, the cloud. A tsunami of AI claims has appeared suddenly, as if this were something new. Coaches, authors, pundits, advertising agencies, the media, seminar promoters are reeling in the bucks, most are not really offering much but smoke and screen, but everybody is feeling modern and signing up. Digital sound sampling has been around since the 80s. Intelligent phone systems have been around for a while. Good old Alexa was launched in 2014! Google is based on AI since day one, only the word algorithm is not all that sexy. Image altering cell phone filters have been available for a long time. What is Photoshop but AI? Health coverage decisions have been made by AI for many years. Decisions on prioritizing social media posts have been...