Just over the last few years it went virtual reality, blockchain and crypto crap, and now chatbots.

What will the next fad be? I'd like to know so I can convince one of these VC ghouls that they should give me money for vaporware.

  • @Great_Leader_Is_Dead15•4 months ago

    Weird I thought the ChatBot stuff was actually a bit more legit than these other things. Like, not in that it was actual AI or anything but that it worked well enough that actual proper capitalists, not just VC "nouveau" riche dorks, were considering using it for actual stuff, or at least trying to.

    A decent amount of people on the lefty web seemed worried about it shrug-outta-hecks

    • Parsani [love/loves, comrade/them]23•4 months ago

      The chatbots are being used as cover to lay off a bunch of workers, and will further shittify the service sector, but I'm slowly becoming convinced that it will fizzle out soon once its clear it won't be what they have convinced themselves it is.

      VR and crypto are still around, but neither are the groundbreaking "world will be fundamentally changed forever" technologies they were convinced of at the time.

      • Dolores [love/loves]14•4 months ago

        The chatbots are being used as cover to lay off a bunch of workers, and will further shittify the service sector

        i don't think these are going away soon so i wouldn't consider it 'fizzled', maybe it'll lose hype but i don't think it's going to be a comparable debacle to 'metaverse' bullshit

    • @jjjalljs@ttrpg.network19•4 months ago

      There was that news article recently where a chat bot told a guy a completely false policy, and the company tried to say they're not accountable for what the boy says.

      That's about the tier I expect chat bots to operate at

    • BigHaas [he/him]8•4 months ago

      Soon we're gonna get generative ai + formal verification for things like software development, and truck drivers will be entirely replaced. It's for sure a big deal. The next decades gonna be fun

      • @Muehe@lemmy.ml2•3 months ago

        truck drivers will be entirely replaced

        Oh, the thing Elon predicted will happen "within the next year" repeatedly for the last ten years will finally happen for real? This is starting to feel like that in-joke about fusion reactors.

    • Tabitha ☢️[she/her]7•4 months ago

      but that it worked well enough that actual proper capitalists

      that's precisely the problem, it works a little too well for them, and they have the money to use it against you.