FWIW, I think they pick the most influential person or persons, not the person I think is the best from the year. Hitler was person of the year and so was Trump.
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Exactly this. "AI" and the people behind it were highly newsworthy, it's not a prize and never has been.
they pick the most influential person or persons,
Celebrating fascism along the way...
In defense of Time magazine here they did have Hitler as person of the year once. Its just the most influential person/thing not the "best".
they also had "you" - meaning everyone - in 2006. So anyone who was alive then is technically included.
Celebrating hitler is not a "defense". jfc.
There are plenty of people who resisted.
Hell of a way to announce you don’t understand the concept of Time Person of the Year
Yeah, that's the excuse they use when later it turns out that their picks weren't that good, but overall theme is that they try to show the positive people/events.
AI is being prepared as a revolution that can have positive benefits, they are also trying to mislead people that it can think, though when you actually use it for things like software engineering you quickly learn that it is now scam than anything.
The tool is only good in negative aspects such as disinformation and surveillance.
I love that series so much.
Yes. Time being irrelevant and stupid is only a recent phenomenon.
TIL AI is a person.
It is "the architects of ai", which is a bunch of tech CEOs, so even worse.
Legally so are corporations.
Yeah, Al is short for Alphonsejamin.
ITT: people taking a fake award both at face value and way too seriously.
Seriously it's not even an honorific, it just describes the most newsworthy people from that year
ITT: people absorbing disinformation and fake news with zero critical faculty.
That magazine was already irrelevant since a decade ago, I've never taken their person of the year thing serious
AI is definitelly the "Thing of the Year" in terms of its impact.
Doesn't mean it's a good thing though, just high impact (and impact which is going to be even higher when the bubble collapses dragging the rest of the American Economy with it).
Its not a good person contest. It's people who have been prominent.
AI is not a person
No, but if you can read, it clearly states the architects of AI, who are people.
They're making that look like fine print...
Copying my earlier comment: The front page literally says: "the architects of AI" are the person of the year.
wonder if mortgage lenders were person of the year in 2007
I think it was just mortgages... but it might've said "brokers" really tiny in fine print.
Worst choice since 2006.
But... I'm awesome 🥺
It's Time ended long ago.
Cover looks like slop.
Everyone here is complaining that AI isn't a person and bringing up 2006... Nobody seems to remember 1982's person of the year.
Was 2 in 1982 so how about you enlighten me?
I wasn't even born yet but I still know how to use the Internet to find out it was the computer
it. never. was.
Is this real? This can't be real. Is it?...
OP tell us who you would put up there instead and why
I stopped considering it legitimate when they claimed that I was person of the year in 2006. I didn't even do anything besides post on myspace, leave youtube comments, drank vodka, and slept around.
What? It was my early 20s.....if you don't wake up five different times, in five different womens beds, where you have no clue who they are, where you are, or where your kidneys are....then you're not doing your early 20s right!
Now.....early 40s? I drink a lot of water. Did you know you should be drinking more water? Because you should be drinking more water.