Likely more accurate to say 'know the future' instead of 'predict the future', but the intent is the same. He doesn't share what will happen, only what will likely happen.
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Lembot_0006@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
What I do not do is predict the future.
Ok.
DaGeek247@fedia.io 4 weeks ago
U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
maybe he means “ai companies will fail” as not so much as a prediction, but just a given. kind of like “one day, you must die” isn’t really a “prediction,” just the way it is
Lembot_0006@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
“The way it is” is based on a huge statistics material. Claiming some future results without huge statistics material is called “prediction”.
The guy is just PRing on the anti-AI sentiment.
Lag@piefed.world 4 weeks ago
Has this not always happened with any new technology?
Lembot_0006@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Hysterical hatred? Not sure. Personal computers were welcomed, cars and planes too (planes were laughed upon, but never hated as far as I know)… Nah, I don’t think that every significant new technology is hated at the start.