Follow the money. If AI is making leaps in sales, you're going with AI. If it isn't, you're right to place it in your 'nice to have' roadmap.
Ask HN: My CEO wants to go hard on AI. What do I do?
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Re: Ask HN: My CEO wants to go hard on AI. What do I do?
#72I don't know what industry your company is in, but godspeed to your CEO on tanking your company with AI bullshit so that this stupid f**ing bubble pops and everyone can go back to thinking carefully using their brain instead of working on better serving Roko's Basilisk. Couldn't be more excited for this kind of short-sighted, AI-instead-of-people thinking to become shameful. How many people need to aim the gun at the…
> AI bullshit so that this stupid f*ing bubble pops
I don't understand what you mean by this. Do you think LLMs are going away? Or is that you think AI-related technologies won't continue to improve?
Re: Ask HN: My CEO wants to go hard on AI. What do I do?
#73I don't know what industry your company is in, but godspeed to your CEO on tanking your company with AI bullshit so that this stupid f**ing bubble pops and everyone can go back to thinking carefully using their brain instead of working on better serving Roko's Basilisk. Couldn't be more excited for this kind of short-sighted, AI-instead-of-people thinking to become shameful. How many people need to aim the gun at the…
> AI bullshit so that this stupid f*ing bubble pops I don't understand what you mean by this. Do you think LLMs are going away? Or is that you think AI-related technologies won't continue to improve?
They will remain but when they have to charge enough profit to cover the cost of generating the responses, how many people will actually pay for it? Last time I saw 97% of OpenAI usage was free customers. No way to force the 3% to pay for their usage.
Re: Ask HN: My CEO wants to go hard on AI. What do I do?
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
> AI bullshit so that this stupid f*ing bubble pops I don't understand what you mean by this. Do you think LLMs are going away? Or is that you think AI-related technologies won't continue to improve?
They will remain but when they have to charge enough profit to cover the cost of generating the responses, how many people will actually pay for it? Last time I saw 97% of OpenAI usage was free customers. No way to force the 3% to pay for their usage.
I mean I pay for several already.
If I had to, I guess I'd pay $100/month for ChatGPT.
But I also don't see how these things don't keep getting cheaper. What recent technology has gotten more expensive over time?
Re: Ask HN: My CEO wants to go hard on AI. What do I do?
#75I don't know what industry your company is in, but godspeed to your CEO on tanking your company with AI bullshit so that this stupid f**ing bubble pops and everyone can go back to thinking carefully using their brain instead of working on better serving Roko's Basilisk. Couldn't be more excited for this kind of short-sighted, AI-instead-of-people thinking to become shameful. How many people need to aim the gun at the…
> pops and everyone can go back to thinking carefully using their brain I am sorry I have to burst your bubble, but that is not going to happen, ever. This is the new normal now. We have to accept that reality and adjust accordingly. Maybe with new hiring filters or similar. Hopefully these filters won't be just a LLM hallucinating random things, but realistically speaking... Yeah, it's gonna be that, isn't it?
I'm not disputing that there will be a new normal. It's not that I think things will go back to how they were before, but this level of hype that showers cash on anyone who as much as speaks the words AI is not going to persist.
Re: Ask HN: My CEO wants to go hard on AI. What do I do?
#76I don't know what industry your company is in, but godspeed to your CEO on tanking your company with AI bullshit so that this stupid f**ing bubble pops and everyone can go back to thinking carefully using their brain instead of working on better serving Roko's Basilisk. Couldn't be more excited for this kind of short-sighted, AI-instead-of-people thinking to become shameful. How many people need to aim the gun at the…
> AI bullshit so that this stupid f*ing bubble pops I don't understand what you mean by this. Do you think LLMs are going away? Or is that you think AI-related technologies won't continue to improve?
There can be a bubble of speculation around something that does have real value. Housing for example.
What is driving the market to assign such a huge value to models is that they can sell themselves as the solution to any and every problem, even if they aren't
Re: Ask HN: My CEO wants to go hard on AI. What do I do?
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
> AI bullshit so that this stupid f*ing bubble pops I don't understand what you mean by this. Do you think LLMs are going away? Or is that you think AI-related technologies won't continue to improve?
There can be a bubble of speculation around something that does have real value. Housing for example. What is driving the market to assign such a huge value to models is that they can sell themselves as the solution to any and every problem, even if they aren't
I don't understand what you mean by this. What specifically do you think is going to happen?
Re: Ask HN: My CEO wants to go hard on AI. What do I do?
#78From what I've seen, anyone giving you definitive answers is blowing smoke. I've seen teams go for AI, do it well, and succeed. I've also seen teams go for AI, f it up, and all get fired as the company shuts down. The question is whether the key value of your product can benefit from the strengths of AI? If not, don't go there. If so, you then need to determine if your team can actually deliver an AI-driven vision th…
"I've seen teams go for AI, do it well, and succeed"
Can you give any hints as far as industry or product?
Re: Ask HN: My CEO wants to go hard on AI. What do I do?
#79People who invest because the C-suite says "AI-first" without any roadmap or plan are better described as "bagholders", TBH
Reminds me of not too long ago when lots of companies were tacking NFTs and metaverses onto totally-unrelated things.