You’re right we are in an anti ai bubble ( we all remember THE CLOUDDDDD buzzword companies wouldn’t shut the hell up about, and that was an objectively far better service than Ai is) however, I can’t name anyone in the company I work for thats had llms revolutionize their job. It helps summarize (badly) and help with excel formulas (does ok if you know what you’re doing). Plus, our clients dont pay us to use a shitty half ass llm, they expect actual intelligent humans to do the work correctly.
I also won’t buy from any company blatantly using llms in their products. They’re good at hiding it. But I will notice.
I can’t name anyone in the company I work for thats had llms revolutionize their job
I’m jealous, my director at a software company has a second laptop just for AI so he doesn’t have to deal with IT and is insistent on using it for every project. One of his annual goals is 100% of his division using AI at least once per day. For every person against AI, there is another who can’t get enough.
But it wasn’t new anything new. The “cloud” services were literally the internet, just made a little easier for stupid people. Just like this llm shit isn’t really new. The paid off media wants idiots to think its revolutionary but its not. Its a chatbot that sometimes gets stuff right.
Have i done surveys, no. Have I seen the percent that subscribe, yes. I can only talk from my experience of my bubble. However, it bears up to the finances and the criticisms I’ve seen.
People like the idea and like that or can be a time saver for things like writing an email or resume etc. Managers like that it is purported to save money. The reality seems to be that it doesn’t, or at least doesn’t save much, based on studies.
I know people who love it and use it at work all the time for research with reference to internal info. I know people for whom it’s banned and they need to document that ai was not used.
I know parents that use it when doing projects with their kids to save time but they worry that it circumvents the point of the project.
I don’t know anyone that subscribes personally. From my perspective, most companies seem to be pushing very hard to get users. If their product was great, they wouldn’t need to. There is no network effect like with recem fast spreading tech.
I should have phrases better. People don’t like ai enough to pay for it and it’s costly to run.
The companies that enshittify their service never actually care about their premium service. They provide a service which is good enough for free users and a pro version for power users. Later once they amass a critical userbase, they slowly make their free service shitty and ask users to pay to get their good-enough service back. Free users were their focus all along and these premium users are there just to pay some of their costs.
Are you sure that “people don’t really like AI”, or is it more “the people here in my self-selected online bubble don’t really like AI?”
You’re right we are in an anti ai bubble ( we all remember THE CLOUDDDDD buzzword companies wouldn’t shut the hell up about, and that was an objectively far better service than Ai is) however, I can’t name anyone in the company I work for thats had llms revolutionize their job. It helps summarize (badly) and help with excel formulas (does ok if you know what you’re doing). Plus, our clients dont pay us to use a shitty half ass llm, they expect actual intelligent humans to do the work correctly.
I also won’t buy from any company blatantly using llms in their products. They’re good at hiding it. But I will notice.
I’m jealous, my director at a software company has a second laptop just for AI so he doesn’t have to deal with IT and is insistent on using it for every project. One of his annual goals is 100% of his division using AI at least once per day. For every person against AI, there is another who can’t get enough.
The stupid are easily addicted.
The ‘cloud’ was a pretty big thing though… everyone used to self host, now only some self host.
AWS, GCP, Azure make a lot of money
But it wasn’t new anything new. The “cloud” services were literally the internet, just made a little easier for stupid people. Just like this llm shit isn’t really new. The paid off media wants idiots to think its revolutionary but its not. Its a chatbot that sometimes gets stuff right.
Have i done surveys, no. Have I seen the percent that subscribe, yes. I can only talk from my experience of my bubble. However, it bears up to the finances and the criticisms I’ve seen.
People like the idea and like that or can be a time saver for things like writing an email or resume etc. Managers like that it is purported to save money. The reality seems to be that it doesn’t, or at least doesn’t save much, based on studies.
I know people who love it and use it at work all the time for research with reference to internal info. I know people for whom it’s banned and they need to document that ai was not used.
I know parents that use it when doing projects with their kids to save time but they worry that it circumvents the point of the project.
I don’t know anyone that subscribes personally. From my perspective, most companies seem to be pushing very hard to get users. If their product was great, they wouldn’t need to. There is no network effect like with recem fast spreading tech.
I should have phrases better. People don’t like ai enough to pay for it and it’s costly to run.
The companies that enshittify their service never actually care about their premium service. They provide a service which is good enough for free users and a pro version for power users. Later once they amass a critical userbase, they slowly make their free service shitty and ask users to pay to get their good-enough service back. Free users were their focus all along and these premium users are there just to pay some of their costs.
Yes, that works when providing the service is cheap to scale. Like social media, search etc
AI is not cheap to scale and is not as disruptive or groundbreaking.