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Here's something I've learned
over the past five years of blogging:
don't start by telling the audience
why you wrote a blog post.
Instead,
tell them why they should read it, and
then do your best to prove yourself right.
Technical Writing for Developers – Why You Should Have a Blog and How to Start One
Ankur Tyagi
You likely know what this means
even if you don’t know it in those words.
The hype cycle, as defined by Gartner, [which tracks it](https://www.gartner.com/en/chat/gartner-hype-cycle),
is that series of cyclical events
that happens around nearly all emerging technologies:
the breakthrough,
the “peak of inflated expectations,”
the disillusionment,
the period of actual serviceable uses of the tech,
and the time when it’s adopted.
That pinnacle is the groan time,
the moment Justin Bieber drops more than $1 million
on an NFT.
The moment Facebook buys Oculus.
The moment the bodega starts taking bitcoin
and you know you’ll never be able to escape this thing,
whatever it is.
This Is the Worst Part of the AI Hype Cycle
Angela Watercutter
It does not matter if the AI is sentient,
it does not matter if the AI as real emotions.
The problem is that the conversational interface is potent
and that the AI is trained on a lot of human text input
which unfortunately is probably enough to do real damage
if that conversational interface is hooked up with something that has real world consequences.
Humans do stupid shit,
and with that conversational AIs might do too.
I Think AI Would Kill My Wife
pocoo.org
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