Benioff Pokes Fun at 'AI Toothbrush', Signaling Peak of AI Marketing Hype
• Marc Benioff posted a picture mocking an Oral-B toothbrush advertised as having "AI capabilities", joking about whether this signals the "top of the AI hype cycle"
• Companies are applying the AI label as a marketing gimmick even to basic products like toothbrushes that don't really use advanced AI
• We may be hitting a saturation point where the AI label and promises have become overused to the point of losing meaning
• However, we're still in the early innovative stages of AI development overall, with huge future potential, despite some disillusionment setting in
• Benioff himself has gone back and forth from calling AI the most important innovation ever to criticizing AI models for inaccuracy and data privacy issues