AI nowaday is like Bluetooth 20 years ago: they put it everywhere where it's almost never useful

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To be fair, we only know where Bluetooth is useful because we put it in a lot of places where it wasn't useful

Trial and error isn't the only way to optimize things... It's actually one of the worst, the one you use when you have no clue how to proceed

So no, that is not a justification for having done it or continue to do it

Now I wonder if substituting the sugar in my coffee with arsenic would render a delicious new beverage.... Only one way to find out!

I'm not talking about trial and error, I'm talking about throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks.

There might be good ideas out there that no one could think of until they accidentally get invented

I'm not talking about trial and error, I'm talking about throwing shit at the wall and seeing what sticks.

Is that not trial and error?