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Godot Isn't Making it - (What if AI has already peaked?) (www.wheresyoured.at)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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New Ed! Not much particularly new info, just a general lament and summary of the state of tech and how much has been pinned on magical thinking. Has some wonderfully quotable sections.

What if what we're seeing today isn't a glimpse of the future, but the new terms of the present? What if artificial intelligence isn't actually capable of doing much more than what we're seeing today, and what if there's no clear timeline when it'll be able to do more? What if this entire hype cycle has been built, goosed by a compliant media ready and willing to take career-embellishers at their word?

Please forgive my addition to the title, as it's meant to be a play on "Waiting for Godot", not a comment on the Godot game engine. Wanted to make that more clear than the title alone would.

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[–] TunaCowboy@lemmy.world 50 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

It's a poorly chosen title, especially in tech, where godot is overwhelmingly understood to be a game engine.

Waiting for Godot is a play by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett in which two characters, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), engage in a variety of discussions and encounters while awaiting the titular Godot, who never arrives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_Godot

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Ed is presuming a high school education from his readers, where kids get hammered with the play whether or not they have any idea what it is

out in the world, ~nobody has heard of the game engine

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 3 points 2 weeks ago

Ed is presuming a high school education from his readers

Hmm, I don't think ignoring the American audience like that is a good idea, but maybe he has his reasons

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