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Google’s ATLAS is a look at how people are using AI

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Re: Google’s ATLAS is a look at how people are using AI

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> My company spends millions on ai token every month How much profit does the AI company make from those tokens?

I don't know and that wasn't the point I made. My company is a two digit billion dollar revenue company in the top 100. My point was that real companies pay real money for AI. But i use it daily at work and a lot of co-workers do too.

My company is ten quadrillion dollars revenue (per second), you just haven't heard of it (it's from Canada).

And we spend $3b/yr just to make sure our I is capitalized.

Re: Google’s ATLAS is a look at how people are using AI

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For example, automotive technicians and industrial mechanics use AI to interpret complex test results, debug electrical wiring, and inspect machinery for wear. No chance I'd trust Gemini to correctly tell me which wire was the high voltage one. You're absolutely right! I apologize for providing a factually incorrect explanation. You asked a question, and I gave you incorrect information that put you in danger. That f…

There's a bunch of great techs on youtube whose day job is to not to get electrocuted.

So far I've learned 480V is very unforgiving and can show up in surprising places.

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These AI threads seem to attract the same kind of repetitive, low-effort dismissals that crypto threads used to.

I don't disagree but one difference I see is Enterprises pushing hard to use AI where none of them really bothered with Crypto. I see momentum with AI that I haven't seen since the push to Cloud infrastructure 15 or so years ago.

That's because it actually works, so the dismissals are doubly silly in that they fly in the face of trivially observable reality.

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For example, automotive technicians and industrial mechanics use AI to interpret complex test results, debug electrical wiring, and inspect machinery for wear. No chance I'd trust Gemini to correctly tell me which wire was the high voltage one. You're absolutely right! I apologize for providing a factually incorrect explanation. You asked a question, and I gave you incorrect information that put you in danger. That f…

> No chance I'd trust Gemini to correctly tell me which wire was the high voltage one.

No latter than yesterday I used Gemini to tell me which kind of power adapter was compatible with an old SNES chinese backuping device [1] (a device you'd plug instead of a cartdridge into the SNES and then you could make backups of cartdridges on to 3.5 floppy disks. You could then run the games from those backups. Conveniently you could also "backup" your friends' cartdridges.. Heck, there was even a tiny demo scene for the SNES and you could swap disks with little demos written for the SNES -- just like for the Amiga).

It was a bit tricky in that Gemini explained me I needed a reverse polarity adapter or I risked bricking everything.

Now, granted, the stakes weren't very high but... Gemini got it right and I could start the SNES, with the chinese "Super Pro Fighter" backuping device just fine.

[1] this thing: https://videogamedevelopmentdevices.fandom.com/wiki/Super_Pr...

Re: Google’s ATLAS is a look at how people are using AI

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For example, automotive technicians and industrial mechanics use AI to interpret complex test results, debug electrical wiring, and inspect machinery for wear. No chance I'd trust Gemini to correctly tell me which wire was the high voltage one. You're absolutely right! I apologize for providing a factually incorrect explanation. You asked a question, and I gave you incorrect information that put you in danger. That f…

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Re: Google’s ATLAS is a look at how people are using AI

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Knowing where the ball is going to be is a rare skill, and none of the people currently running those companies has that foresight. There’s a reason why there’s many QBs but only one Tom Brady.

I don't see a reason to believe any CEO, past or present, has had the ability to accurately predict the future. Luck and foresight look the same when you happen to get it right.

Catching one trend, like Mark Zuckerberg, is just luck. But there’s clearly CEOs who are able to predict the direction of markets over a sustained period of time across multiple inflection points. E.g. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.

Re: Google’s ATLAS is a look at how people are using AI

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Google/Noam Shazeer coped Ragdoll Studio to a T then act like they’re the innovators in the space lol

Notice that nobody who actually innovated on the technology ever speaks on it.

It’s always these thieves from academia and Google who act like they’re the inventors. Trying to explain to us - the people they have been ripping off for years - how “AI works”

Go home Google

Re: Google’s ATLAS is a look at how people are using AI

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> My company spends millions on ai token every month How much profit does the AI company make from those tokens?

I don't know and that wasn't the point I made. My company is a two digit billion dollar revenue company in the top 100. My point was that real companies pay real money for AI. But i use it daily at work and a lot of co-workers do too.

> My company is a two digit billion dollar revenue company in the top 100.

The company ranked 100th in the top 100 companies by revenue is Eli Lilly and they make 45 billion in revenue.

I don't believe you.

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