i already had internalized that the tech industry isn't as smart as it wants people to believe, and the way a lot of supposedly intelligent people are hyping up "AI" has driven that home even further. it's like if a bunch of physicists were excited about the promise of perpetual motion machines. would be embarrassing to a more professional field
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in reply to @amydentata's post:
In fairness, "a bunch of physicists [who] were excited about the promise of perpetual motion machines" more or less sums up the Quants on Wall Street circa 2004-2007, and to a certain extent, still today.
Fund basic research! Keep academics who are immune to embarrassment busy and out of the private sector!
For a while in the 00s, there was a place called Steorn that did exactly this
To be fair, the guys who work on the guts of these models are pretty realistic about their limitations when writing actual scientific literature about these things. The hype is coming from management guys trying to sell these models to VC psychos.
I wish it was that clean and tidy, but my experiences with a lot of supposedly smart engineers suggests otherwise.
Yeah I've found that while it may start with an existential need for convincing VC funders at first among executives, it over time turns into a culture of supposedly smart engineers becoming convinced (maybe because agreeing with execs proves to be advantageous career-wise, maybe because they want to be in on something early for clout or money or something) by the same sorts of exaggerations
they always... always drink the kool-aid, even if it's intended only for guests