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I work in a tech department for a super old company and we are give pretty much all the professional AI softwares and custom LLMs.
My AI usage has gone up but not really for what you think. I use it mostly for thoughts consolidation and pagination. As someone with ADHD. My thoughts are scattered and often my reports and presentations are hard to comprehend. AI has been pretty helpful putting my thoughts into a format that is easier to consume for people not on the spectrum.
I essentially dictate my thoughts in probably the most scattered brain way and the AI does a great job putting my thoughts into words and even presentations.
In my previous jobs without AI, I struggled with putting my thoughts on paper. Now I literally a top performer at work.
I worked in logistics and there was a software company working on routing software for the company before I left, this was about 2 years ago and they were going on about how AI would route all the trucks and decide which order the deliveries would be done.
I was in a lot of these planning meetings and never said a thing about how it didn’t need to be AI it just needed to be a set of rules to follow. They are still not running without human intervention.
Rules: Don’t load too much, don’t have two trucks crossing over eachother, go when the stores are open, don’t work more than 12 hours, try to give the same amount of stops/workload to each driver.
AI doesn’t know what these things mean unless we tell it how to interpret work into rules. There is nothing intelligent about a system that relies on humans having to constantly check its work and paying extra to call that AI.
Breaking news, trash tech no one wanted or asked for being shoved down everyone’s throats is trash.
If AI is a bubble that pops, all the big talking heads that went on about how it’s the future and we all need to embrace it won’t lose credibility. They’ll mostly just keep their jobs. Not fair. I can be pig headed and wrong and I’ll do it for less than their seven figure compensation
No one ever knew how to use it, and they still don’t. All we heard was “implement AI” but not any actual use cases.
The use case for AI is pumping up the stock market.
idk I think my AI infised can opener is great!
I was working in pure software engineering and we had to attend a meeting/presentation about some use cases for it.
It’s one of things that any useful tech would never need. Do you think the airplane, the cell phone, the internet, any other useful tech you can think of needed brainstorming sessions for use cases? Hell no, they couldn’t implement their ideas as fast as they wanted because the uses are so obvious
That’s because it is a speak and apell pretending to be a hammer.
If I have to spend several days ‘training’ it, turn take time to fix it’s mistakes, it’s not saving any time
time to move some of my 401k allocations, cuz a big slice of the sp500 pie is heavily invested on AI
It’s such a misery managing any account during a bubble. If you hold you lose when the knife falls, if you try to time it then everything stays irrational longer than you can stay solvent.
You are not the first person I’ve heard share that sentiment!
why though
the s&p is an index weighted to match the top 500 companies, so the bigger companies get more money put in to their stocks. if most companies aren’t doing great and a few tech ones are “holding up the market”, then most of the money in your s&p indeed will be with them
Skill issue. I used AI to create a web application that extracts the serial number from an image into text. This allows us to just simply take a picture rather than than having to type the serial number manually while using a magnifying glass. Significantly speeding up the process and lowering error rate.
You could’ve just looked for off the shelf OCR software and it would probably be better, no LLM needed. OCR has been around for far longer than the current LLM bubble.
No, I tried OCR and it was less accurate.
indeed, anyone with skills would have whipped that up in noetime without AI… or use any of the many apps that already do that
For real, you can copy text out of images on most modern phones so this isn’t really an issue anymore
Yea, you can do that, but have fun doing that 1000 times a day. Manually copying was the problem, I created a system that automated that process.
Ok but how does the phone extract the text? The fact that a modern phone can do it does not mean there’s no AI involved
OCR is a very, very old AI system that for decades we’ve scanned documents and saved to pdf with. The old system is far from perfect, but it does work well enough in most cases. If an AI recognition model can do the same job with less mistakes, that is an improvement.
Then why was I the one to do it if anyone could have done it?
I used AI at work the other day… I’d just pasted something into a browser and realised I need to do a load of text manipulation. Rather than copy it out to vim, process it there and then back in, I just told the AI to do it.
truly the industry is saved
Yeah I use it to bypass advertising when looking up obscure coding problems. But I think the point is I’d never pay a penny (see what I did there?) to use it. It’s nice and helps some places but I think monetizing the billions spent is the challenge / impossible. Plus people at my work have copilot fatigue. It’s been integrated in such a clumsy distracting way. Actually adding negative value now.
I’m way too afraid of having our codebase ripped by these shucksters to use those in-IDE ones, and good open models are still too big to be run locally.
