How the fuck is AI person of the year?
It’s not AI though. It’s the architects of it.
It’s also not a good person contest and is solely based on prominence.
I mean they gave it to me a few years ago and I sure didn’t deserve it.
Technically they gave it to “The architects of AI”
And also worth knowing Time person of the year isn’t necessarily someone who did something good, just who they deem to have had the biggest impact
Hitler got it once I believe
After Hitler, Stalin, Nixon and Trump: let’s take the meaninglessness of this reward to its logical conclusion.
Technically it’s not meant to be a positive thing - just a neutral acknowledgement of a topic’s media dominance for that year, but yeah, The phrase “X of the year” is so universally understood to be positive that even with the reminder that it’s not an award, it still feels like an award.
