First there was “open washing,” the marketing strategy for dressing up proprietary software as open source. Next came “cloud washing,” whereby datacenter-bound software products masqueraded as cloud offerings. The same happened to big data, with petabyte-deprived enterprises pretending to be awash in data science.
Now we’re into AI-washing — an attempt to make dumb products sound smart.
Judging by the , the entire Fortune 500 went from bozo status to the Mensa society. Not to rain on this parade, but it’s worth remembering that virtually all so-called AI offerings today should be defined as “artificially inflated” rather than “artificially intelligent.”
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