it’s ‘90% marketing’ while he ignores AI for now [Video]

Linux creator Linus Torvalds has come out blasting AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA recently calling their hardware “buggy” and now has said that the AI industry is full of it and that it’s “90% marketing” and “10% reality“.

During a recent interview at the Open Source Summit with TFIR, Torvalds talked about the hype surrounding AI, and how the technology has been shadowed by the overwhelming marketing of tech giants (of which I agree).

He said: “I think AI is really interesting and I think it is going to change the world. At the same time, I hate the hype cycle so much that I really don’t want to go there. So, my approach to AI right now is I will basically ignore it because I think the whole tech industry around AI is in a very bad position, and its 90% marketing and 10% reality. And, in 5 years, things will change …