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The Problem With AI Is That We Anthropomorphized It
And what about the ‘this tech will change everything’ hype?
AI, AR, and VR hype is getting to me. The marketing narrative of ‘this will change everything’ is making me sick. And confused. I have to do something about it. I know 90% of this is marketing noise but that doesn’t stop me from getting paranoid. Where do I focus? Do I write? or do I quit?
What do I do? Who do I trust?
Myself!
There is only one way to make sense of it all:
Understand media and content. Understand their relationship and my relationship with them. See how much things have changed to know how much they might change.
I will ask if everything has changed and then ask further questions based on the answer. I will also ask what AI, AR, and VR are likely to do to my life.
To understand the changes in media and how contents change with them, I made a list of the media devices I used and the content I watched each year from 2003 to 2023. That is, from the time I was 10 to the time I am 30. This list is based on what I remember and what I use currently. The remembrance might be vague and the years might be exaggerated, but it more or less paints what happened.
