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Lance Ulanoff

I tried to reassure a friend about AI at a party, but ended up spooking us both

AI worries.

AI is inescapable in a way that makes you wonder why you took the day off in the first place. It's not just that there are countless chatbots and generative models to choose from, it's that the arrival and prevalence of this fast-growing-and-changing-technology, like a earworm everyday consumers can't shake.

The relentless strain of artificial intelligence is as catchy as Hey Ya, Outkast's propulsive tune of the early oughts that helped perpetuate the myth that you have to shake a Polaroid picture to develop it. And Polaroid photos are actually a lot like AI, they need no assistance to go from blank and vague to sharp, clear, contrasty, and specific.

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