Why is AI so popular when nobody wants it?

You'd have to be living on Mars to have avoided all the hype about AI over the past couple of years. Businesses have been trying to ride the wave of enthusiasm by adding artificial intelligence into all their products. Results have been mixed to say the least. Apple has delayed rolling out much of their Apple Intelligence portfolio because it frankly doesn't work. Consumer research shows that customers are at best ambivalent about AI and in some cases are actively hostile to, saying they'd be less likely to purchase a product that had AI integration.Processor-maker Intel has admitted that nobody is buying their AI-enhanced PC chips. Even the big cloud hyperscalers such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services seem to be pulling back from the data centre deployments they had planned as unpinning their AI offerings. Concerns about AI-generated slop and its enshittification of the internet are starting to break through to the mainstream. People are tired of seeing generative AI being p ... Read full article.