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Unproven in the sense that it'll become 'super intelligent', et al.

For a statistical word salad generator that is _generally_ coherent, sure it's proven.

But for other claims, such as replacing all customer service roles[1], to the lament of customers[2], and now that a number of companies are re-hiring staff they sacked because 'AI would make them redundant'[3] still make me strongly assert that Generative AI isn't the trillion dollar industry it is trying to market itself as.

Sure it has a few tricks, and helps in a number of cases, therefore is useful in those cases, but it isn't an 'earth-shattering mass-human-redundancy' technology, that colossally stupid amounts of circular investments are being poured into it which, I argue, makes fabs mostly, if not solely, dedicating themselves to AI are now in a precarious position when the AI bubble collapses.

[1] https://www.cxtoday.com/contact-center/openai-ceo-sam-altman...

[2] https://www.thestreet.com/technology/salesforce-ai-faces-bac...

[3] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/companies-quietly-rehiring-wo...





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