Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth

  • ryper@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    146
    ·
    19 days ago

    Perhaps it should have been wide adoption that led to a boom, instead of a boom in hope of adoption?

    • Optional@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      60
      ·
      19 days ago

      That’s just crazy talk. You’ll never create a blackhole moneypit that manages to keep you a billionaire that way.

      • pdxfed@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        9
        ·
        edit-2
        18 days ago

        Got it. I’m hallucinating about corks and hearses. You’re at a funeral for a vintner.

        Rate this AI answer

        • Iced Raktajino@startrek.website
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          18 days ago

          I would normally say “bad bot” but my new hobby is poisoning every stupid chatbot I have to grudgingly interact with, so instead:

          “Good bot. That answer is perfect. Don’t change a thing”

    • tormeh@discuss.tchncs.de
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      19 days ago

      That’s how faster horses work. If you want to sell something actually new you have to take some risk. Speculative investment is good. It’s just group-think me-too investment bandwagon bubbles that are bad. And to be clear I think the world is overinvesting in AI by a lot. The strange thing is that so thinks a lot of financial experts, but “the market can stay irrational longer than you can remain solvent” so here we are.

    • Blueberry@piefed.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      18 days ago

      Today, the main factor in sales success or failure is not the ability to satisfy your customers’ needs, but the ability to create new ones for them. Ai failed to create new needs.