Companies keep pushing AI as something positive, in increasingly stupid ways.
From the SAAB JAS-39 Gripen E fighter supposedly having AI, to the Sony A7R VI having AI auto focus, and other weird applications.
As a resonably logical person who works in IT, I can see the Gripen E having the space, energy and general computing resources to run a local AI model, but the Sony A7R VI?
I am mashing X hard on that one!
How much of AI bullshit is just machine learning and just older tech we have had for a while under different names?
Don’t get me wrong, I hate AI with a passion, I am not trying to excuse it’s use, I am trying to figure out what devices use AI branding as a marketing gimmick while using less bad crap, and what devices actually could use AI.
As an IT guy and a hobby photographer I feel like AI is far too much A while inhibiting the I of the user.
I see it as well. Your random low-spec computer will now be a somethingsomething AI laptop. Your software and products AI powered and your company AI first. Could mean anything. Maybe they slapped a label on it because it uses maths. Or they added an API. Or maybe it actually uses some modern form of AI. Or it’s the same thing as before. It’s a marketing term, everything needs to “have” AI because it’s modern and maybe still has some futuristic connotation for some people.
Yeah, I feel like companies use “Ai” as a generic “computer magic” term.
That’s what it is. It’s a fake grift. Actual magic is at least honest.