Morons are the ones most impressed with "AI", so its core demographic and low hanging fruit to sell to.

> Why doesn’t he ask his girlfriend what a thermodynamicist is? (She should know: That’s what her dad does.)

My dad worked a lot of different jobs at the same company before he retired a few years ago. I know at some point one of his jobs had "logistics" in the title. I only ever had a vague notion of what his job entailed. Unless the job title is obvious, like "plumber", I wouldn't expect this woman to know what the hell her dad does.

> the less funny assumption is that someone could be more moved by an A.I. letter than by the unpolished emotion of an enthusiastic child.

You'd be surprised. Tiger parenting is definitely a thing. That the technology validates this mindset only adds more fuel to the fire.

Advertisers have tried to manipulate our social fears and anxieties since Edward Bernays invented it a century ago, to get more women to smoke cigarettes for Lucky Strike. Along the lines of 'you'll wonder where the yellow went...' or 'the heartbreak of psioriasis' ... The old SOB lived to be 103 years old.

It's sort of the opposite of 'On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.'

"If, for some reason, your brain stops functioning, Meta’s got you."

This is a great slogan haha.

Its a filter, like in that Microsoft "Why do Nigerian Scammers Say They are from Nigeria?" paper.

Solutions designed for a perceived demographic via dogfooding the same technology?

MIT study on AI and Intelligence: https://archive.is/ClSRM

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

-George Carlin

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