liam_on_linux | I am so sick and tired of "AI"

Spent much of today getting a Live AROS USB key working, which wasn't trivial... it needed a USB 3 key, which I had to go and buy specially.

But after that... I am so tired. I want to write about new stuff in software, but there feels to be no area not contaminated with "AI".

I get the depressing feeling that computing is just being eaten up by bloody "AI". Virtually every press release I've seen this week has been AI. Mozilla adopts new AI search engine. Red Hat releases RHEL 10 with built in AI chat bot to help clueless PFYs admin the thing. Windows bloody Notepad has AI built in. AI in Google Docs. AI boosters in my mentions telling me and my friends that AI is helping them read antique books or whatever.

Is there anywhere outside of retrocomputing that doesn't have AI in it?

The emperor has no clothes. LLM bots are not artificial and they are not intelligent. Not at all, not even a little bit, not even if you redefine the words "artificial" or "intelligent".

"AI" is not "AI". The liars and the shills redefined what people used to mean by "AI" as "AGI", artificial _general_ intelligence, so they could market their stupid plagiarism bots as AI.

AGI is not real. It doesn't exist. It will probably never exist. Hell, at the rate humanity is going, we won't be able to build new computers any more by 2050 and the survivors at the poles will be nostalgic for electricity.

AI is a scam. It's a hoax. It's fake news. There is no AI, and what is being sold as AI is such an incredibly poor fake that it is profoundly disheartening that so many people are so stupid to be deceived into thinking it is AI.

The blockchain is a scam. Everything to do with it is a scam.

Alternative medicine is a scam. All of it. There is no such thing. If it's called "alternative" that means it's been proved not to work.

All religions are scams. No exceptions.

People have made billions from selling scams for my whole lifetime.

Meanwhile, other scams, like plastics being recyclable -- they aren't, it's a lie -- or biofuels -- also a lie -- mean our civilisation is on the verge of collapse. We are killing the planetary ecosphere that keeps us alive with plastic and pollution from burning stuff. We have to stop burning everything, stop cutting down trees, and stop making all forms of single-use products. No more jet planes. No more private cars. No more foreign holidays. We can't afford it.

And with all that we are almost certainly still doomed.

But I kind of want to see my industry go first, if all it's got now is AI.

Snag is, I need a job. I have Ada to pay for.