They’ve invested way too much to admit it’s almost totally useless, and only useful in niche app, using sketchy conditions (training material IP…) and under tight control.
So they engage into heavy marketing and comms ops to convince the world that “AI” (very vague term BTW, what they offer right now should rather be called systems resulting from stochastic learning, credit for that naming suggestion is not on me) was a revolution and whoever doesn’t get on board will be left behind in the dust.
It worked really well: corporate world is embracing the “AI everywhere” idea.
So now, everyone is competing to provide “the best AI assistant”. And believe it or not: some people do ask for it!
Because AI is a solution in search of a problem. The current plan is to just put it in everything and hope one of them is better as a result. It’s not the worst plan, because eventually some combination of things is likely to be useful, but it means a lot of useless shit will be slapped together. Of course it’s also far from a great plan, because it means a lot of useless shit will e slapped together.
They’re using us to train it and offloading the costs of training it to us. This isn’t for us or customer service or whatever, they want to use their AIs to further develop them is all
Why do they all act like AI is the holy grail ?? Phone update: here you go, AI. New app: here you go. AI. Websites: here you go. AI.
I’ve tried it, but AI sucks. All tech questions give non-working answers. Everything else, the AI always agree with you.
They’ve invested way too much to admit it’s almost totally useless, and only useful in niche app, using sketchy conditions (training material IP…) and under tight control.
So they engage into heavy marketing and comms ops to convince the world that “AI” (very vague term BTW, what they offer right now should rather be called systems resulting from stochastic learning, credit for that naming suggestion is not on me) was a revolution and whoever doesn’t get on board will be left behind in the dust.
It worked really well: corporate world is embracing the “AI everywhere” idea.
So now, everyone is competing to provide “the best AI assistant”. And believe it or not: some people do ask for it!
Because AI is a solution in search of a problem. The current plan is to just put it in everything and hope one of them is better as a result. It’s not the worst plan, because eventually some combination of things is likely to be useful, but it means a lot of useless shit will be slapped together. Of course it’s also far from a great plan, because it means a lot of useless shit will e slapped together.
They’re using us to train it and offloading the costs of training it to us. This isn’t for us or customer service or whatever, they want to use their AIs to further develop them is all
Very Plausible
A buddy works at Microsoft. This is exactly what they’re doing.