“When you put aside the hype and anecdotes, generative AI has languished in the same place, even in my kindest estimations, for several months, though it's really been years.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
Putting aside the hype and anecdotes, generative AI has languished in the same place for several months even by his kindest estimate, though really for years.
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Where and when Ed Zitron wrote it
Where's Your Ed At, The Generative AI Con, paragraph 48.
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- when you put aside the hype and anecdotes (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
- even in my kindest estimations (qualifier, stated by the speaker)
From the speaker
- when you put aside the hype and anecdotes
- even in my kindest estimations
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- 2026-10-28.7
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: Where's Your Ed At, The Generative AI Con
When you put aside the hype and anecdotes, generative AI has languished in the same place, even in my kindest estimations, for several months, though it's really been years.
- Where
- paragraph 48
- Published
- 2025-02-17
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
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- Assessment wyea-longcon-f08002-a1: Current. Outcome: Can’t be checked. Not checked against evidence. Public date not recorded.
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