remind me, when companies create an actual revolutionary technology that is going to change the world, do they usually have to beg users to adopt it, give it away for free for years, and at last resort force it on people with no way to disable it? Is that usually how revolutionary tech works?
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Sure, the domesticated potato can be considered a scientific application, but I would suggest that maybe the OP was talking about modern technological devices and applications as opposed to something like that.
Though, no one releases computer software in big boxes anymore so its harder to gauge
We should bring that back
TLDR "AI" right now is in a boom cycle that everyone in tech is currently trying to draw out to force profits up
basically, as with many things in tech nowadays, this is a pump and dump scheme
https://youtu.be/-653Z1val8s?si=Br0BjWey3Y4Mx16B
BUT it actually did take a big PR campaign to convince people to use electricity in their homes.
https://blog.dar.org/how-did-electric-appliances-become-commonplace-home
Such shamelessness, it's a hazy mystery
2003: Interac e-transfers
1982: Debit cards
1969: ATMs
Nefarious profit-seeking motives don’t make it not an innovation. The definition of innovation does not include altruism.
My only point was that foisting features onto its users, whether they are "innovative" or "revolutionary" or not, is a longstanding Microsoft strategy.
so from a tech standpoint Microsoft lost, now IE doesn't even exist, and Edge is just Chrome with a different skin
All of the software that runs the net too. Free then, free now.
the inventor of the LED died destitute and LEDs weren’t widely adopted until much later
they weren’t spending billions on it obv
Everyone allowed AI Generated images/videos/assets for free until the well dried up.
Now we have companies wanting to shove AI into every aspect of computing. Apple did it a long time ago (Machine Learning) but it wasn't the way Microsoft/Google does it.
https://spreadprivacy.com/duckassist-launch/
Before switching to DuckDuckGo, I had a keyboard shortcut to add a long string of modifiers to narrow down Google searches.
https://github.com/searxng/searxng
The lack of ads and of it having no manipulative motivation makes me very happy. It has other features that are nice.