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Welcome to Better Offline, I'm your host Ed Zittron. Now this is the second part of a two-part series about her OpenAI's stupid bloody growth myth has conned the entire media ecosystem, forcing people who really should know better to repeat absolutely insane things

as though they're actually perfectly reasonable. Now, if you haven't already listened to the last

episode and come back, just go. Just go. I don't, I'll need you to listen to it. Otherwise,

let's talk about why this bubble actually inflated. And I realized I did a monologue about this,

but it's so obvious that I needed

to do a longer episode. But let's start simple. The term artificial intelligence is bastardized

to the point it effectively means nothing and everything at the same time. When people hear AI,

they think of an autonomous intelligence that can do things for them, and generate if AI can

do things for you, like generateative AI can do things for you,

like generate an image or a text from a simple prompt. As a result, it's easy to manipulate

people who don't know much about tech or even try it in the first place into believing

that this will naturally progress from, it can create a bunch of texts for me that I have to

write for my job just by me typing in a prompt to, it can do my job for me just

by typing in a prompt. Basically, everything you've read about the future of AI extrapolates

generative AI's ability to sort of generate something a human would make and turns into a,

it can do whatever a human can do, all because some tech in the past has sometimes been bad at the beginning and linearly

improved as time drags on. This illogical thinking underpins the entire generative AI boom,

because we found out exactly how many people do not know what the fuck they're talking about,

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