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> That's missing an important aspect: AI is not some technology marketed as affecting some relatively narrow slice of the economy, like a few car factories. It's being hyped as transformative of the whole thing. And that's what many people in power are hoping and pushing for (hello, AI use metrics).

Marketing is only evidence of the fact that someone wants to sell something. How can you equate basic, fundamental economics with some marketing trend?

> That's a fairy tale. If the technology allows you to make cars more efficiently, management cuts your team.

It's definitely not a fairy tale. Evidence: all the millions of teams in the world that use some form of automation. You don't need a secretary for every manager now because Word and Outlook exist.



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