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Please stop the AI confidence theater

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Re: Please stop the AI confidence theater

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Post by bensyverson »

fercircularbuf wrote: post #12

My broader team organized a 2 day hackathon and created teams of 4 each with a mix of engineers, designers, data scientists, admin, localization, and project managers from across the team and gave us 5 pain points our product was experiencing and let us loose. The amount of leverage AI tools give small interdisciplinary teams to apply their existing skill sets is kind of crazy. Lots of very impressive demos, several…

> The amount of leverage AI tools give small interdisciplinary teams to apply their existing skill sets is kind of crazy.

This is 100% true, and this type of building is where AI is adding real value beyond the "I automated my entire business" hype.

Unfortunately, most companies don't have small interdisciplinary teams who have autonomy to scope and ship software. I spent 10 years at IDEO telling clients this was the way, but it's virtually impossible to replicate on the client side.

Re: Please stop the AI confidence theater

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Post by im_down_w_otp »

altmanaltman wrote: post #6
gregoryl wrote: post #2

The bullshit will continue until the grifters move on to something else. If you can figure out what that is, you'll make some serious bank!

quantum computing in next 5-10 years for sure will be the next grift, the wheels are already turning

Its zeitgeist appeal has been stuck for like 20 years.

The problem with it is that unlike sell-side mortgage fraud, self-driving cars, crypto, and current AI… quantum computing doesn’t have a simple, approachable, mass appeal parlour trick to rally around.

Until it gets one, it’s never going to facilitate the scale of grift and graft as the others.

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john_strinlai wrote: post #18

> Show me something truly life changing. i dont think there is any software on the planet that i would consider "truly life changing", so i find it a bit weird to hold ai up to that standard. as a note, i found this particularly funny: " It’s doing more harm than good. " followed immediately by " This post is sponsored by Firecrawl. Firecrawl is the web data API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale.…

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Post by radicalbyte »

algoth1 wrote: post #14

As someone who has worked closely to the marketing space, there’s a saying that goes something like: ‘then the marketers found about it and ruin everything’. Quick example: when amazon launched kindle self publishing, there was a golden age where wannabe writers could self-publish their books, and let the market dictate what survived and became successful. Eventually, some people got good money out of it. Then market…

Venture Capitalists are now even worse than the marketers.

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Post by nailer »

> But show me something that has become so critical in your day that if I took it away tomorrow, your work would actually fall apart. Show me something truly life changing.

Descript. I edit video for work and I am not ever going back to manually seeking to edit video. I am about 8x faster with Descript.

This isn’t even a raw praise post: Descript is wildly unstable and shitty at times but I STILL won’t use anything that doesn’t have transcription-based editing.

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Post by onion2k »

fercircularbuf wrote: post #12

My broader team organized a 2 day hackathon and created teams of 4 each with a mix of engineers, designers, data scientists, admin, localization, and project managers from across the team and gave us 5 pain points our product was experiencing and let us loose. The amount of leverage AI tools give small interdisciplinary teams to apply their existing skill sets is kind of crazy. Lots of very impressive demos, several…

If you were to say 'doing the same work a bit faster' isn't life-changing then that's evidence that the hypothesis in the article is actually correct.

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Post by cautiouscat »

john_strinlai wrote: post #18

> Show me something truly life changing. i dont think there is any software on the planet that i would consider "truly life changing", so i find it a bit weird to hold ai up to that standard. as a note, i found this particularly funny: " It’s doing more harm than good. " followed immediately by " This post is sponsored by Firecrawl. Firecrawl is the web data API to search, scrape, and interact with the web at scale.…

> i dont think there is any software on the planet that i would consider "truly life changing", so i find it a bit weird to hold ai up to that standard.

I think the author made this point because earlier they mention how people tell them AI changed their life.

> So I started asking a simple question whenever someone told me AI had changed their life: ‘Cool. Show me.’

Re: Please stop the AI confidence theater

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Post by weego »

adi_pradhan wrote: post #15

There is a lot of demand for articles like this. The sort of revenge of the humans. I do think a small number of people have totally transformed themselves and their business using AI. But that doesn't overlap with the people who are loudest about it on LinkedIn, X, and other channels.

There are, they're all on the sell side though.
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