No comment on the content of the article, but I have to say bravo to whoever wrote that headline.
I was hoping for "CDOmo" at the end.
Enough with the AI FOMO, go slow-mo, says Domo CDO
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#13There is kind of a spec - its capture knowledge work / thought so they can sell it back to you. Just how uber captured delivery/taxi making it all cheap and subsidised to start with the goal is to embed it everywhere and make people dependent. And then maybe some hope in the future they no longer have to pay anyone, or maybe pay people far less and devalue them.
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#14>>“… wonders why people aren't more annoyed with AI companies “ Outside a small bubble within Silicon Valley and the finance ecosystem funding it, I’d say most folks are increasingly fed up with AI. It’s a very noticeable shift these last 6 months. The mood went from excited, to just annoyed at all the slop and folks using AI as a half-baked easy button vs doing real deep value-add thought. Business is also noticing…
I agree, and with a little nuance:
There's a lot of overlap between people who cannot stand the AI boosters, don't want a data center built anywhere near them, are sick of the slop, and still use a chatbot for some stuff.
I don't think this is hypocrisy. I don't think it's a contradiction at all.
It suggests that people actually like natural language interfaces where they make sense and the price is reasonable. What they don't like is the rhetoric, behavior, impact on electricity prices, insistence on cramming it into places where it doesn't belong, layoffs, threats, and general obnoxiousness of the people pushing it and their general milieu.
Which makes perfect sense.
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#17>>“… wonders why people aren't more annoyed with AI companies “ Outside a small bubble within Silicon Valley and the finance ecosystem funding it, I’d say most folks are increasingly fed up with AI. It’s a very noticeable shift these last 6 months. The mood went from excited, to just annoyed at all the slop and folks using AI as a half-baked easy button vs doing real deep value-add thought. Business is also noticing…
I agree, and with a little nuance: There's a lot of overlap between people who cannot stand the AI boosters, don't want a data center built anywhere near them, are sick of the slop, and still use a chatbot for some stuff. I don't think this is hypocrisy. I don't think it's a contradiction at all. It suggests that people actually like natural language interfaces where they make sense and the price is reasonable. What…
I think people have stopped giving tech companies the benefit of the doubt, unlike the start of the social media era and the smartphone era.
Both of those things did transform life & culture but mostly to the benefit of their makers. People now expect the same from AI and for better or worse most of the CEOs are not even pretending this time. The most they do is some vague hope that it'll all workout magically somehow.
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#18"Domo Says No to AI FOMO" FTFY the headline for you
Domo Says No Mo' to AI FOMO
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#19> The result is a lot of proof-of-concept projects that lack what's required to make them durable, trustworthy, and deployable at scale. Starting with business needs first is essential.
A bunch of frivolous projects that fail sounds to me like a pretty good way to learn how far a new technology can be trusted.
If you're considering putting AI into something load bearing you either need a engineer who has not been participating so they can say "no" or one who has made 15 failed AI projects so they can say "maybe". The very worst case is to pressure somebody who doesn't know the technology very well into saying "yes".
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#20>>“… wonders why people aren't more annoyed with AI companies “ Outside a small bubble within Silicon Valley and the finance ecosystem funding it, I’d say most folks are increasingly fed up with AI. It’s a very noticeable shift these last 6 months. The mood went from excited, to just annoyed at all the slop and folks using AI as a half-baked easy button vs doing real deep value-add thought. Business is also noticing…
Agreed. This place is legit delululand. I speak to people who work at the upper echelons across various industries regularly and whether you want to believe it or not idc - the management are desperately trying to push AI but it just doesn’t add much value to what they do. At best it’s just a really good search engine across internal data. Many of these places already had things called macros in place so there’s bare…
Indeed, and HN also has a huge "pro-AI" bias... everytime you make a comment to point out that AI is first and foremost a political artefact, rather than a technology, and that it will be weaponized against people, they downvote...
Although they know perfectly well what happened to their search / personal data, but they still don't want to see the obvious