WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University on Friday (Dec. 12) unveiled a broad strategy of AI@Purdue across five functional areas: Learning with AI, Learning about AI, Research AI…
Eh I mean the meat and potatoes of the doomerism here is not new. The Sagan quote is from 1995, about the preceding decades. There are similar sentiments going all the way back to the steam engine, from scientists and environmentalists who saw the writing on the wall even then.
It’s not going away
Don’t allow the latest insane marketing push to deter you from the truth. The delusional higher ups mandating AI have proven time and time again they have clue how anything works. We keep seeing it blow up in people’s faces. The university brags about it’s good pre-ai reputation, we’ll see if the manage to maintain it.
Reminds me of when South Korea spent almost $1B usd on an AI textbook program, then were forced to scrap the program after only four months. At the beginning of that farce, you could have equally said “it’s not going away”, but in the end it failed in a spectacularly embarrassing fashion.
They literally cannot deliver on the hype anywhere. Every year when this reality manifests they kick the can further down the road, “just imagine how it will be a few years from now!”
Sadly for us all, as they seem determined to drag everyone else down with them, there is a difference between marketing and reality
Eh I mean the meat and potatoes of the doomerism here is not new. The Sagan quote is from 1995, about the preceding decades. There are similar sentiments going all the way back to the steam engine, from scientists and environmentalists who saw the writing on the wall even then.
Don’t allow the latest insane marketing push to deter you from the truth. The delusional higher ups mandating AI have proven time and time again they have clue how anything works. We keep seeing it blow up in people’s faces. The university brags about it’s good pre-ai reputation, we’ll see if the manage to maintain it.
Reminds me of when South Korea spent almost $1B usd on an AI textbook program, then were forced to scrap the program after only four months. At the beginning of that farce, you could have equally said “it’s not going away”, but in the end it failed in a spectacularly embarrassing fashion.
They literally cannot deliver on the hype anywhere. Every year when this reality manifests they kick the can further down the road, “just imagine how it will be a few years from now!”
Sadly for us all, as they seem determined to drag everyone else down with them, there is a difference between marketing and reality