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Why is AI so popular when nobody wants it?

You'd have to be living on Mars to have avoided all the hype about AI over the past couple of years. Businesses have been trying to ride the wave of enthusiasm by adding artificial intelligence into all their products. Results have been mixed to say the least. Apple has delayed

Even the big cloud hyperscalers such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services seem to be pulling back from the data centre deployments they had planned as unpinning their AI offerings. OpenAI and other AI-focused companies need to find a way of turning the hype into profit and it seems they're going to shove AI into every orifice of business until they hit upon that product-market fit that makes them money. But everything is getting labelled as AI : pothole detection, medical screening, egg farming, finding housemates, animal conservation, urban planning and so on and so forth.

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