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Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying (www.thenerve.news)
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[–] eah@programming.dev 152 points 3 weeks ago (32 children)

In other words, corporate leadership is starting from the premise that AI has (or will) radically change the business, and they're working backwards from that premise to find the evidence to support this article of faith.

Sounds familiar. The proof-of-work blockchain scheme which was the fad a while ago is also often described as a solution in search of a problem.

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 50 points 3 weeks ago (22 children)

I feel like block chain as a public ledger has found quite a few purposeful uses, and was a solution to a handful of problems most people rarely if ever encounter. Then fake money got involved

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

Yes, exactly.

Block chain would have been an amazing solution to most democratic vote validation processes.

[–] benjirenji@slrpnk.net 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It can still be used that way. While most people talk about how corrupt politicians enrich themselves with fake currencies, more legal and legitimate uses can still use decentralized ledgers for useful things. Of course these won't make headlines.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There are far better global ledger approaches than blockchain.

[–] benjirenji@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I believe you, but can you name one so we can all learn more about the alternatives out there?

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

SWIFT is the easy one. Fun fact they looked into blockchain at one point and went "yeah, nah"

[–] Uebercomplicated@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I thought Swift is currently Block-Chain based. Do you mean this Swift?

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

I meant the true and proper SWIFT that is used by almost all financial institutions for transferring funds.

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