#tech hype

[stevensavage]

The Money In Cleanup

I have an acquaintance that helps migrate businesses off of ancient and inappropriate databases onto more recent ones. If you wonder how ancient and inappropriate let me simply state “not meant for industry” and “first created when One Piece the anime started airing” and you can guess. Now and then he literally goes and cleans up questionable and persisting bad choices.

In the recent unending and omnipresent discussions of AI, I saw a similar proposal. A person rather cynical about AI mused someone might make a living in the next few years backing a company’s tech and processes OUT of AI. Such things might seem ridiculous, until you consider my aforementioned acquaintance and the fact he gets paid to help people back out past decisions. Think of it as “migration from a place you shouldn’t have migrated to.”

It’s weird to think in technology, which always seems (regrettably) to be about forward motion and moving forward that there’s money in reversing decisions. Maybe it was the latest thing and now it’s not, or maybe it seemed like a good idea at the time (it wasn’t), but now you need someone to help you get out of your choice. Fortunately there are people who have turned “I told you so” into a service.

I find these “back out businesses” to be a good and needed reminder that technology is really not about forward. Yeah, the marketing guys and investors may want it, but as anyone who’s spent time in the industry knows, it’s not the case. Technology is a tool, and if the tool doesn’t work or is a bad choice, you want out of it. The latest, newest, fasted is not always the best - and may not be the best years later. Technology is not always about forward, even if someone tells you it is (before they sell you yet another new gizmo).

Considering the many, many changes in the world of tech, from social media to search to privacy, I wonder how much more “back out businesses” might evolve. Will there be coaches to get you to move to federated social media? How can you help a company get out of a bad relationship with a service vendor with leaky security and questionable choices? For that matter can we maybe take a look at better hosting arrangements and websites that aren’t ten frameworks in a trenchcoat?

I don’t know, and the world is in a terribly unpredictable state. But I’m amused to think that somewhere in my lifetime the big tech boom might be “oops, sorry.” Maybe we can say “moving away is really moving forward,” get some TED talks, and make not making bad immediate choices cool.

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[bravecrab]

[gwydionmisha]

Debunking the Tech Hype Cycle with Dan Olson

[popsicle-stick]

stupidest people on gods green earth

[ibboard]

"The only areas where AI delivers the goods are spamming, scamming and shamming" 😆

Here’s an interesting take. We’ll see how much truth there is in it over time.

(Immediate response to this proposition, though: Good. It’s caused enough damn trouble already.)

[here-comes-the-moose]

Wrecker: Do you think I could fit fifteen marshmallows in my mouth?

Tech: You’re a hazard to society.

Crosshair: And a coward, do twenty.

[valdevia]

You make AI gen abominations? You make fake MRIs and xrays. What else do you make with AI?

You got it the other way around you tech bro weirdo. It's AI who makes abominations using the work it stole from me. Now kindly fuck off :)

[billfinarts]

Techchosis

He's fine y'all.

[ohnoohnoohnoohnoohnosblog]

^^ this

This is the most important response to “AI is going to replace all the jobs”

#MarcusHutchins

[brandyy0moss]

[cornleypolytechnicgoeswrong]

More of my favourite low effort CPDS Members as my screenshotted tiktok comments memes for you as an apology for being so inactive and proof I am still around hehe <33

[halfling-myth-lady]

How tf have I ricocheted into two Greek mythology fandoms that have no business being this good while still unfinished that I have also joined in the most convenient time plausible.

[butchhansolo]

ok it goes like this hunter has cake wrecker has cake echo and tech are average and crosshair's ass would break your hand if you tried to slap it

[techtainia-makes-things]

TFOne, but make it 1920s

I found out that Iacon was inspired by art deco, and Hadestown is such a Megatron musical. It’s 1920’s time! I used a couple of ads from the era as reference.

[auroras-void]

Funny how there's all this thought about value alignment in AI to prevent it from destroying humanity.

When the real alignment problem all along was that you'll never get to the point where destroying humanity is an issue because if you tell a computer to teach itself to be intelligent it's just going to teach itself how to look intelligent.

Unfortunately of course "look intelligent" has been Silicon Valley's motto since it's inception.

Meaning that's basically good enough for venture capitalism to go fuck up the world with it, as we can see per Exhibit A: *vaguely gestures at everything*

[here-comes-the-moose]

Hunter: Okay we’re going out tonight but no funny business. *looks pointedly at Crosshair and Wrecker*

Crosshair: Relax, we won’t even drink that much.

Wrecker: Yeah! What Crosshair said!

*later in the evening at about 2am*

Crosshair and Wrecker on karaoke: 🎶WHEN YOU WAKE UP NEXT TO HIM IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT WITH YOUR HEAD IN YOUR HANDS, YOU’RE NOTHING MORE THAN HIS WIFE🎶

Hunter:…

Echo:…

Tech:…

Hunter: *face-palms and sighs*