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Way to long and no bubble in sight Ai is already changing plenty of industries...

GolfPopper 2y ago
Like Oral-B's $300 AI toothbush![1] No bubble! No bubble! 1. https://oralb.com/en-us/products/compare/electric-toothbrushes https://oralb.com/en-us/products/compare/electric-toothbrush...
- jsheard 2y ago
  The "AI" toothbrush, stupid as it is, actually pre-dates the current hype by years. Here's a review from 2019: https://www.forbes.com/sites/leebelltech/2019/06/30/oral-b-genius-x-review-does-a-toothbrush-really-need-artificial-intelligence/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/leebelltech/2019/06/30/oral-b-g... A better example would be the "AI mice" that Logitech is pushing now.
- imglorp 2y ago
  Of course there are tons of useless PR parasites. Shareholders will demand to see a "response" or a "strategy" or an "answer" or an "AI play". If all you make is toothbrushes, you just have to milk the users the old fashioned ways: hardware purchase, subscription, and data sharing. That said, I know of ANOTHER toothbrush company that has an "AI play"... :(
- greenyies 2y ago
  Exactly, this is just stupid marketing and has nothing to do with real ai
- tim333 2y ago
  I've got a friend with one. They are actually good toothbrushes if not very AI.
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alangibson 2y ago
My wife just bought AI skin cream. Definitely no signs of a bubble round here.
- rib3ye 2y ago
  That’s just the sideshow. The bubble has yet to start: very few AI companies are publicly tradable through direct stock purchases.
  - alangibson 2y ago
    Yea, we're still in the money raising phase. This should get interesting when investors start looking for an exit. Maybe by then everyone will have forgotten how the SPAC craze turned out.
- greenyies 2y ago
  Scammers and stupid marketing doesn't mean ai is a bubble
halfcat 2y ago
What are some examples? If in 10 years all we have are better chat bots and image generators, I’d say it was a bubble, and I don’t see anything that says that’s definitely not the path (though I’m not in the weeds of AI, so maybe it’s just not obvious, yet).
- ymck 2y ago
  By 2025 the majority of applications will use AI in some way (mostly to allow for sloppy user input), in 5 years there will be no non-AI applications. For example, in healthcare (because... day job), you will be interacting with an AI as the first step for your visits/appointments, AI will work with you to fill out your forms/history, your chart will be created by AI, your x-ray and lab results will be read by AI first, and your discharge instructions will be created on the fly with AI... etc. etc. etc. This tech is deploying today. Not in a year, today. The only thing that's holding it up is cost and staff training.
  - kyruzic 2y ago
    2025 is 6 months away. There is absolutely no way a majority of applications will use it.
  - blactuary 2y ago
    That sounds like an absolute nightmare
  - halfcat 2y ago
    Think about what you just said. You gave examples of how chat bots are going to be more widely used. Nothing more. So far I don’t see any examples that aren’t overpriced efforts in “shoehorning a chat bot” into something. Like why will a hospital pay for a bunch of chat bot integrations when it’s likely my ChatGPT phone app will be able to view the form via camera and AirDrop or email the form? Meaning, I still see no examples of why OpenAI isn’t the Bitcoin of the crypto bubble (one use case, with one winner). You say the only things holding it up are: - Cost - Training Which can be said of any business that’s ever existed. So why is AI different?
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dragonwriter 2y ago
As with previous AI hype waves, real transformational change happening does not contradict there also being excessive hype and a bubble which eventually bursts.

Like Oral-B's $300 AI toothbush![1] No bubble! No bubble! 1. https://oralb.com/en-us/products/compare/electric-toothbrushes https://oralb.com/en-us/products/compare/electric-toothbrush...

jsheard 2y ago
The "AI" toothbrush, stupid as it is, actually pre-dates the current hype by years. Here's a review from 2019: https://www.forbes.com/sites/leebelltech/2019/06/30/oral-b-genius-x-review-does-a-toothbrush-really-need-artificial-intelligence/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/leebelltech/2019/06/30/oral-b-g... A better example would be the "AI mice" that Logitech is pushing now.
imglorp 2y ago
Of course there are tons of useless PR parasites. Shareholders will demand to see a "response" or a "strategy" or an "answer" or an "AI play". If all you make is toothbrushes, you just have to milk the users the old fashioned ways: hardware purchase, subscription, and data sharing. That said, I know of ANOTHER toothbrush company that has an "AI play"... :(
greenyies 2y ago
Exactly, this is just stupid marketing and has nothing to do with real ai
tim333 2y ago
I've got a friend with one. They are actually good toothbrushes if not very AI.

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alangibson 2y ago

My wife just bought AI skin cream. Definitely no signs of a bubble round here.

rib3ye 2y ago
That’s just the sideshow. The bubble has yet to start: very few AI companies are publicly tradable through direct stock purchases.
- alangibson 2y ago
  Yea, we're still in the money raising phase. This should get interesting when investors start looking for an exit. Maybe by then everyone will have forgotten how the SPAC craze turned out.
greenyies 2y ago
Scammers and stupid marketing doesn't mean ai is a bubble

halfcat 2y ago

What are some examples? If in 10 years all we have are better chat bots and image generators, I’d say it was a bubble, and I don’t see anything that says that’s definitely not the path (though I’m not in the weeds of AI, so maybe it’s just not obvious, yet).

ymck 2y ago
By 2025 the majority of applications will use AI in some way (mostly to allow for sloppy user input), in 5 years there will be no non-AI applications. For example, in healthcare (because... day job), you will be interacting with an AI as the first step for your visits/appointments, AI will work with you to fill out your forms/history, your chart will be created by AI, your x-ray and lab results will be read by AI first, and your discharge instructions will be created on the fly with AI... etc. etc. etc. This tech is deploying today. Not in a year, today. The only thing that's holding it up is cost and staff training.
- kyruzic 2y ago
  2025 is 6 months away. There is absolutely no way a majority of applications will use it.
- blactuary 2y ago
  That sounds like an absolute nightmare
- halfcat 2y ago
  Think about what you just said. You gave examples of how chat bots are going to be more widely used. Nothing more. So far I don’t see any examples that aren’t overpriced efforts in “shoehorning a chat bot” into something. Like why will a hospital pay for a bunch of chat bot integrations when it’s likely my ChatGPT phone app will be able to view the form via camera and AirDrop or email the form? Meaning, I still see no examples of why OpenAI isn’t the Bitcoin of the crypto bubble (one use case, with one winner). You say the only things holding it up are: - Cost - Training Which can be said of any business that’s ever existed. So why is AI different?
- 2y ago

dragonwriter 2y ago

As with previous AI hype waves, real transformational change happening does not contradict there also being excessive hype and a bubble which eventually bursts.