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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.

The point the commenter is making is that your company will not remain a two digit billion dollar revenue company in the top 100 for long unless they have someone whose job it is to figure out how much profit is being made from those tokens and act on that information.

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…

> 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 yo…

I’m constantly surprised at the breadth and depth of information these systems can retrieve and present in digestible format

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…

I wouldn’t replace best practices for safety like lock-out tag-out and hazard labeling with an LLM but you do you

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

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And yet, it seems like Google doesn't understand the AI Economy :) But it doesn't prevent them from pretending they do Y)

They release real numbers from their practical expereince running on of the biggest ai based agents on the whole planet. You wrote a snarky comment without content. Would love to actually have a real discussion about critisism like this (not because i'm affiliated with google at all, but because I like to expand my knowledge through discussions)

Please engage in good faith.

Google:

1. Is not remotely unbiased. 2. Does not have desirable models, coding harnesses, or data centre capacity for AI (they rent space from SpaceX). 3. Seems to be lagging far behind in all things AI. 4. Has serious problems with internal adoption of AI tools (such as banning most team members from using competitors, but allowing the DeepMind team to use Claude, etc.)

Their opinion from their PR team is not just that credible or valuable.

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…

Even the best AI tools are consistently wrong at interpreting the NEC and often in odd ways, like making it stricter than it actually is, or mixing multiple countries’ standards together. 100% useless in an AHJ with a lot of their own rules like Chicago/Cook County.

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.

Very true - reminded me of this demo* as an example... on the surface looks trivial but potentially life saving.

* https://youtu.be/knSkE9ejPl8?t=112

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…

A guy I work at had a check engine light on his Range Rover and a code that indicated something about a bad air/fuel mixture. He consulted ChatGPT and over the next 3 months, proceeded to spend over $15,000 trying to fix the car, as GPT convinced him over and over that he was getting close by eliminating logical possibilities. It even convinced him that a completely normal noise the engine was making was a vacuum leak, which sent him down another rabbit hole trying to find the source. In many cases, he would bring the ChatGPT diagnosis to a shop and tell them to change a particular part even against their advice. None worked. Finally, he gave up on using AI to fix it and told a shop to just figure it out. Turns out the injectors just needed to be removed and cleaned. Check engine light is now off.

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

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I would like to understand how the cost of AI power & infrastructure, more than the global annual gross revenue software sales, will be recouped while simultaneously delivering on the promise of putting technical services in the hands of anyone, which will naturally put downward pressure on the prices.

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

#80

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

Crypto failed and pivoted. One still cannot pay bills, taxes, buy medicine, transportation, etc. directly with crypto. It is fair to assume the same story will happen to AI.

Pivoted where?
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