Gary Marcus

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@neilturkewitz There will likely be both, backlash and reckoning..

Backlash: customers may feel advantage of, public may feel angry at how all this is going.

A number of polls already show public trust diminishing.

4/18/2024, 3:21:29 PM

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neil turkewitz

@neilturkewitz

623d

@GaryMarcus Yea, but “backlash” is the wrong word. It suggests an irrational moral-panic. A more accurate term would be the “reckoning.” The need to address the delta between promises & reality. An unraveling of the myth of progress & tech determinism.

Gary Marcus

@GaryMarcus

624d

Yep. the AI backlash has begun.

That’s what you get when you wildly overpromise what a wildly immature technology can do.

Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin  🇮🇱

@jasonlk

624d

There’s an AI Backlash happening now in the enterprise in particular

Many vendors have promised big results and not delivering, especially in automation

Promising to automate 50% of your contact center with AI, of your interactions with AI, etc.

No one is hitting it

The genie…

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