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If you believe that AI does add to productivity gains, say equivalent to adding 10-20% employees, would you do anything differently than SAP?
These are enough gains that you don't need to believe, they should be measurable
If you believe that AI does add to productivity gains, say equivalent to adding 10-20% employees, would you do anything differently than SAP?
Having worked at some giant firms that heavily depend on SAP, I would think their position as "system of record for procurement/production" would get stronger with AI. e.g. AI + a good database of what your company does seems like an excellent combination.
Would a technology famous for hallucinating data often enough, and in many context unable to guarantee it won't assume and hallucinate when it feels "confident enough" despite a robust system prompt, be really considered for a "system of record for procurement/production" usage? (yes yes RAG exists)
If you believe that AI does add to productivity gains, say equivalent to adding 10-20% employees, would you do anything differently than SAP?
If AI was actually making you more profitable, you wouldn't need to be cost cutting to avoid bankruptcy.
Look at the conversation: people are writing off this technology (on a tech forum no less) as useless, because it can make mistakes. We criticize the cost, and the business models, and the companies, the purveyors and users. Why? Because we don't quite understand how best to use it...3 years in.
People have lost all concept of time scales, I guess. They expect everything to be polished and mature NOW. How many people realize that could take a decade or more?
So, yeah, a stodgy old company has figured out they don't need to hire and don't need to travel, and AI is expensive. So what?
Having worked at some giant firms that heavily depend on SAP, I would think their position as "system of record for procurement/production" would get stronger with AI. e.g. AI + a good database of what your company does seems like an excellent combination.
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These are enough gains that you don't need to believe, they should be measurable
Not really. A company can work and do things without having to run RCTs to prove everything. The market itself is the RCT.
And also, individual productivity isn't the same as organisation productivity, especially at such a large company.