GENERATIVE TELE-AI 2000
so funny seeing companies scrambling to claim whatever goofball thing they were already doing is actually ‘ai’ now. NEW AI MICROWAVE WILL GENERATE A TEMPERATURE BASED ON YOUR SETTINGS. NEW AI GROCERY STORE SETS PRICES BASED ON WHAT PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO PAY. PLEASE INVEST IN ME
has been happening forever. the fender telecaster guitar was named that because TELEVISION was the cool new tech at the time. clearly did not have anything to do with TV itself and now this guitar just has a weird name. that being said at least telecasters are super dang cool
another fun one is how every product coming out around and before the millennium just slapped '2000’ on their name for no practical reason other than that date represented 'the future’. 2000 WHAT? WHAT DOES IT DO? WHAT DOES THE NUMBER 2000 HAVE TO DO WITH SIM CITY MAXIS?
See also: “turbo” everything in the 80s. James May once owned a pair of TURBO SUNGLASSES. As if you could even have an exhaust manifold on a pair of sunglasses, let alone a turbocharger.