This dipsh*t Michael Hiltzik probably would have said forget about manned flight, as the Wright brothers were only able to stay in the air for 12 seconds...
I have only begun to experiment with AI in my business. I can see it easily raising my bottom line by over 20%. It’s going to reduce cost increase capacity and give me additional services without additional work.
My first AI program was called “I got your...”. What ever you typed into the input the program would wrap an “I got your...” in front of it. it was great.
I just met with a landscape design / build firm. The president and VP business development met with another client yesterday, flew a drone over the site, took some photos, and walked the project site dictating ideas into the Apple “Memos” app. They fed the photos and transcript from the Apple “Memos” recorded discussion to ChatGPT and in seconds had a gorgeous 3D photorealistic rendering of what the customer’s finished project would look like. I’m a bit jaded, but this was incredible. They then put that concept into a traditional landscape design software package.
I met with another competing company who took photos of the property, printed them out, made hand ink markups on the photos (just very rough squiggles and boxes for plants) and provided a plant list poorly coded to the location on the property. She included a sloppy hand written bill of materials. No plans, no real design work, no computer work. It was really junk. She billed me for that “work,” too! What a waste of money.
Guess who won the job?
Sounds like one of those “Internet bubble” articles from 1999.
Maybe it’s a bubble, maybe not. If you’re not a super genius, dollar cost averaging into the main indexes works best. I’ll come out better off just like after buying into the real estate crash, the Covid crash and the smaller dips. *yawn* The worst thing to do would be to sell and desperately try to get back in later.
GPT is not exactly the meat and potatoes of AI. It’s merely the face that a lot of people see—kind of like GROK. It’s a cute toy.
Where AI will really come into play is manufacturing and supply chain. That is not the stuff you are going to see in your internet browser.
I used to manage call centers. The AI applications in that field are being used to route calls and present information back to management so that problems can be solved, and anticipated well ahead of the deluge (when things go bad, they go bad fast!). Yes, we used to have people do that stuff. But AI is faster and makes fewer mistakes.
AI is being integrated into almost all aspects of life. They will make almost every process more efficient and reduce errors and mistakes. That means fewer employees working and checking. That saves a bunch of money.
So, AI is not going away. It’s a bubble like the dot.com bubble because speculators are buying EVERYTHING hoping that one of those purchases will be the next Microsoft or Amazon. That stuff will correct. But the infrastructure and software will evolve and it is going to be huge.
Remember: The real money in the gold rush era was made by the people who sold shovels and jeans—not the gold miners; most of them went bust.
Oh. The LA Slimes. Never mind
I don’t think so. AI isn’t ready for the trash bin. It’s imperfect, and always will be, but it will be put to use in many sectors — even though it’s not perfect.
AI will have a nervous breakdown and commit suicide
Estimates suggest 70-85% of AI projects fail.
RAND Corporation reports a failure rate exceeding 80% for AI projects, twice that of traditional IT projects.
One Gartner report suggests an even higher failure rate of 85% for AI projects.
bump
First time I used v5 it droned on and on without directly answering my question. So I told it to keep its answers succinct and professional. Now every time I ask it something it prefaces the answers with “OK, I will now give you a succinct and professional answer” followed by the answer. No matter what I do it won’t stop prefacing when it answers, it’s driving me nuts. Guess I’ll go back to v4.
AI is more and more data gobblers (storage), more and more soldiers (processors), webbed together, and people coding in [it doesn’t maatter].
What’s Jim Cramer’s take? LOL
I am predicting the biggest crash since 1929 due to combined bubble in AI stocks and crypto currency. Only thing I can’t predict is the exact date. You have some time to take profits and switch to something stable & reliable.
Wait, they’re gonna need it to deepfake for 2026!
I hope so... Before they turn over all finance, medical, education, transportation, infrastructure, Etc. over to AI.
The only ones who support AI is because of the MONEY period...
Gee. This was unpredictable.
/s
bttt