"AI"'s killer feature is making UIs for existing non-AI technologies like OCR, speech to text, deep fakes, image manipulation etc. In many cases firms eventually look to get a better result and use the tools themselves after seeing the result ceiling.
I'm not. This whole thing has exposed something very ugly at the heart of American society. As soon as you start bumping off people you don't agree with — even those with stupid views — you might as well wave bye bye to democracy.
In my experience I find most people more capable than LLMs and so do most Gen Z friends of my kids. It's an issue that will have to be solved if we are to avoid a bubble bursting.
Tulips are great looking flowers, but you can't do anything but look at them. Ask the Dutch.
This feels like an advertisement for agentic AI. Though I agree wholeheartedly that teams can be proactive about blockers, this is only introducing more dependency that can lead to wasted effort or costs. The primary proposed solution is basically accepting delay by temporarily accepting AI substitutes for blocking teams and processes and hoping that filling the AI requirements will fill the actual team's requirements when the blocker is actually dealt with. Basically option 2 or 3 with the trust that adding another dependency on AI will magically fix things. When it doesn't, it will be wasted time meeting a hallucinated response. Not to mention that when the cost of tokens starts going up to meet the market predictions of these technologies, this is going to constitute a significant financial cost for organizations and teams.
I think about this as the traffic jam conundrum. You can wait in the line of cars idling or take the exit to local roads, navigating traffic lights and driving extra miles to stay in motion while rejoining the now unjammed traffic further on right behind the same car. I'll admit I do this, but I won't pretend that the benefit after consuming additional gas was anything more than avoiding waiting for the sake of my nerves.
Am I the only one who is reminded of the ethanol attempts in the early aughts where corn prices shot up because it was going to be sold for fuel? We need Electricity for essential things like refrigeration, cooking and heat. We don't really need AI. It's a case of where the government should be protecting the citizens and expecting companies to foot the bill for their own expenses instead of expecting everyone to pay for them to get rich off of products that most consumers have less interest in. Like paying for football stadiums with property taxes. It's shameful that we keep supporting this behavior in our government.
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