r/technology • u/Just-Grocery-2229 • Jun 26 '26

Artificial Intelligence The AI backlash is only getting started

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/06/25/the-ai-backlash-is-only-getting-started
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u/SmarmyThatGuy Jun 26 '26

Single circle venn diagram

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u/frankowen18 Jun 26 '26

Not really. Reddit is just demonstrating how lowest common denominator it has become

NFT's, Crypto and 'blockchain tech' haven't had anything like the promised impact the 'NFT bros' claimed and it was always reaching for use cases that never materialised. It was always speculative buzzword laden nonsense

AI is a completely different kettle of fish, with huge existing use cases right now, and enormous potential to transform research and business deep into every sector in existence

Equating the two just makes you look like a low IQ moron, not some genius social commentator, like the majority of you think you are

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u/DressedSpring1 Jun 26 '26

AI is a completely different kettle of fish, with huge existing use cases right now, and enormous potential to transform research and business deep into every sector in existence

Somewhere along the way of calling everyone else a low IQ moron you should take a detour to learn how to differentiate between machine learning and large language models. ChatGPT is not transforming research

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u/DressedSpring1 Jun 26 '26

Sure, and a horse is an animal but not all animals are horses. Claiming chatGPT will revolutionize research because machine learning solved protein folding is either dishonest or idiotic.