Prepare for That Stupid World
9 hours ago
- #Technology
- #AI
- #Journalism
- The Wall Street Journal story about a snack-vending machine run by an Anthropic chatbot is criticized as pure advertising rather than journalism.
- The article highlights the absurdity of adding a chatbot to a vending machine, which adds no value and makes the process more expensive and error-prone.
- The narrative normalizes the idea that AI will be everywhere, even when it's unnecessary or inefficient.
- The Anthropic representative seems unconvinced by his own claims, even warning about potential risks like being locked out of your business by AI.
- The journalist and the team appear proud of their trivial achievement of getting a free coke by interacting with the chatbot, highlighting a concerning trend of low-value AI applications.
- The article concludes with the resigned advice to 'prepare for that world' where AI is omnipresent, even in pointless applications.