My small, no name company has lost its mind with AI
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My small, no name company has lost its mind with AI
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#2CEO openly says AI will cause the loss of “millions of jobs”.
My advice, figure out how to get the CEO fired and tell him he was right.
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#3The absence of real applications incorporating this stuff is damning.
Where are the killer apps?
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#4> - got the OK to feed entire repos and proprietary information into ChatGPT without a care because “we got the pro version”
> Our main product is CRUD app that is designed like something straight out of 2010, complete with outdated frameworks
If it's a small startup with a simple CRUD app, why this a problem? 99% startups die from lack of execution, not because someone stole their proprietary secrets or source code.
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#5I like to think that all the quantillion crypto mining computations were somehow a cover for the training of an ELLM that is now seeding LLMs to hide its existence.
And that still makes more sense than this bs.
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#6CEO openly says AI will cause the loss of “millions of jobs”. My advice, figure out how to get the CEO fired and tell him he was right.
Honestly by the sounds of it the quality of decision-making won't be notably different between the current CEO running things and things just being decided stochastically by ChatGPT.
Anyone as old as me remembers the sudden transition in the MBA mindset between "lol you nerds are so cute with your 'web'" where business people thought the internet was just where you got your old college email to "OMG WE NEED A WEBPAGE NOW" and suddenly every business _had_ to have a web page (most of which didn't do anything) so they could say they had an "internet strategy".
The same mindset shift is apparent with respect to AI. Every executive currently has their LinkedIn feed dominated by posts from influencers like "20 essential ChatGPT prompts to redefine your marketing strategy!", "50 prompts you need to know to survive in M&A" etc. so they are suddenly scrambling to put the AI magic sauce on everything so they can say to their investors and board they have an "AI strategy".
"This too shall pass" as the Persian saying goes.
There's no doubt that the sudden increase in capability of some of the leading AI is going to bring about a step change in lots of areas, and I think things like huggingface being a center for open collaboration and sharing of models etc are genuinely radical and transformative in the same way that when the open source movement took off it generated a tremendous amount of collaboration and innovation. However traversing the gap between"I type things into ChatGPT and treat it as my outsourced roomful of monkeys'" and "thoughtful application of AI to some problem domain" requires people who actually have some quite specialised skills and are in quite high demand. I don't see that gap closing for a while tbh.
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#8Small company, bad product, bad bosses. So no excuse to stay in such a place.
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#9The absence of real applications incorporating this stuff is damning. Where are the killer apps?
Where are they? Anything involving creativity.
There is a reason most creative professionals are screaming to the nine high heavens of hell for dear mercy, because they are in the best position to see the writing on the wall.
The current deconstruction of intellectual property rights is damning and must be rectified, but even putting that aside "AI" is still going to eliminate the vast majority of creative occupations because a supercomputer is still cheaper than a human on the payroll or invoice.
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#10I like to think that all the quantillion crypto mining computations were somehow a cover for the training of an ELLM that is now seeding LLMs to hide its existence. And that still makes more sense than this bs.
If only. Then those CPU cycles would at least have been doing something of value. If you look at crypto mining computations they don't (on the chains I have looked at) actually compute anything meaningful at all. It's literally just generating random numbers and then (almost always) throwing them away.
Like you have Alice who says "Try to guess my number?", and then Bobs around the world go
Bob1: "Is it 13?" Alice: "no" Bob2: "Is it 4672?" Alice: "no" ... Bob175432: "Is it 294762483492643826432862834??" Alice: "Yes. You can do the next block."
Literally that pointless.