“Yet even with thousands of headlines, billions of dollars of investment, and trillions of tokens run through various large language models, there are no essential artificial intelligence use cases, and no killer apps outside of non-generative assistants like Alexa that are now having generative AI forced into them for no apparent reason.”
Our reading, the sentence that was checked:
Despite thousands of headlines, billions of dollars of investment and trillions of tokens, there are no essential AI use cases and no killer apps apart from non-generative assistants like Alexa.
Assessment: Can’t be checked Not checked against evidence
Where and when Ed Zitron wrote it
Where's Your Ed At, Subprime Intelligence, paragraph 34.
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- Evidence
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- Observation
- Deadline, as the speaker wrote it
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- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
- Deadline state on 2026-10-29
- No horizon (the release’s reference date)
Conditions
- outside of non-generative assistants like Alexa (scope, stated by the speaker)
From the speaker
- outside of non-generative assistants like Alexa
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- Deadline state when assessed
- No horizon
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- Policy version
- 2026-10-28.7
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: Where's Your Ed At, Subprime Intelligence
Yet even with thousands of headlines, billions of dollars of investment, and trillions of tokens run through various large language models, there are no essential artificial intelligence use cases, and no killer apps outside of non-generative assistants like Alexa that are now having generative AI forced into them for no apparent reason.
- Where
- paragraph 34
- Published
- 2024-02-19
- Source observed
- , live page
- Access
- full text, public
History
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- Assessment wyea-sam-altman-fried-929546-a1: Current. Outcome: Can’t be checked. Not checked against evidence. Public date not recorded.
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