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I strongly agree. For instance like most start-up company do automation website that provide the automation services (e.g. send WhatsApp message at certain algorithm matched). These days companies just slapped the terminology like "artificial intelligence", "blockchain" and "web3" thinking they are innovative , personally I think they just portrait themselves don't even know what they doing to begin with.

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> These days companies just slapped the terminology like "artificial intelligence", "blockchain" and "web3" thinking they are innovative

Some startups actually only throw around these terms to get more funding. They may get asked to do more "innovation" with AI when the core system doesn't really need any, so they push more buzzwords into the marketing and maybe tinker a bit with ML on the side.

That's the usual ritual.

yeah, I have a theory that "goodness of product" is inversely proportional to[(number of buzzwords squared) times (no. of emojis + font size on homepage)]

Yeap

>That kind of change can feel scary or threatening...

>....a hot-swap start-up promises something familiar but better.

I was thinking in this regard about "AI" being hard to trust, as it is inherently a magical black box.

it doesn't have to be though, theres a lot of progress in explainable AI, causal inference etc. but a lot of software products like let's say Instagram make you have to trust their AI because they don't show you the metrics, training data or really anything at all. the company is a black box. even if they select posts to show you by Minecraft chicken randomisers you'd not know

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