“It has a smooth finish, virtually indestructible, and it writes upside-down.” [None of these will be true] “Also, with our Ink Anytime subscription service, you’ll never run out of ink! It’s free…” [for the first six months] “for our lowest tier…” [three lines of text per day] “with an option to upgrade to a higher tier anytime.” [Puts pen in pocket] “We’re offering pre-orders with a $5 non-refundable deposit, with delivery expected sometime in the next six months depending on how soon you get on the waitlist.” [Two years until you give up and just let us keep your deposit] “So sign up now!”
Ah, early pioneers in PaPaaS (Pen and Paper as a Service).
The AI arm race has done so much damage to the environment and is creating more ewaste also. It sucks.
I’ve seen a DankPods video about an “AI powered” rice cooker, turns out it was a marketing tactic to sell more of them. It’s actually just an ordinary rice cooker.
Six years ago: “It’s blockchain-powered!”
26 months ago: “it’s nft powered”
Ten years ago ‘‘Now new GREEN liquid dish soap!’’
Yup. They don’t understand what it is or what it does. All they know is that it makes even dumber venture capitalists open their wallets.
The PR Marketing guys sure don’t, but the actual Machine Learning and AI computer scientists sure do!
I’d wager a lot of marketing people only skim the basic surface of what it does and just plaster it to their supervisors without you know… working with the ACTUAL technical experts in that field.
Plus they think the non techie is a dum dum who don’t know no better.
I had to talk to some company’s chatbot yesterday that was just if/else powered. That sure was cumbersome to do. It couldn’t even tell me the company’s mailing address.
I was forced to use bing while searching for some info on the internet, when I’d click on what looked like a useful result, I would instead get CoPilot slowly summarizing the info I needed back to me, and obscuring the source… Who the fuck though that was a good idea?
That’s a shame, because bing was become pretty decent as a search engine lately
AI is the new IoT. You’re gonna see it jammed into shit it has no business being in. And it’s gonna cause major problems 10 years from now.
Yeah, smart washing machine i have just complicates process for no reason, i mean, if i gonna launch or stop machine then i should be near so i can unload clothes to dry, and if I’m near, then why the hell I’m needed wifi smartphone controlled one? Sadly it was the cheapest one for my size (amount of clothes) requirements
Hey, just four days ago their selling point was that it had a rainbow on it.
Anything to make a buck.
Everybody missed out on gay AI last month
gAI? gay-I?
Gay-ay.
I’d buy an Al powered pencil though:
There was some LLM-powered pen in the makings, I haven’t heard about it since. Was part of the Rabbit/AI Pin style of AI junk.
They act like software = ai
Such a joke
This pencil is made with graphene!
Remember when that janitorial company changed its name to include the term CRYPTO and it’s stock went through the roof and the SEC investigated them for fraud?
I can’t find the story unfortunately
Could it be related to Long Blockchain Corp?
AI bubble is gonna pop so hard.
I just hope it happens before it ruins too many companies and a lot of people lose their jobs.
I hope it happens before we run out of potable water.
It’s like the late ‘90s where they tried to connect every common activity to the internet, like bar codes in the newspaper for coupons online.
They got it “right” when they stopped trying to make non-internet things direct you to the internet and just moved the non-internet things to the internet.
Now they’re trying to cram AI into everything. What’s the next step…moving your brain into the AI?
The answer to the original riddle is “Sure, can I have your phone to make a demonstration. Great. I’ll sell the phone and pen back as a package deal for $100.”
This is theft of the phone, so it does accurately demonstrate how corporations work.
I always thought a good one was to put the pen in your pocket and refuse to give it back. Make him name his price. Clearly it’s yours, not his. Otherwise how could you sell it to him?
To a person like that a mere pen is basically worthless as a hostage.
Thats exactly the kind of unethical salesmanship he used to hire for.
