Companies seem to think AI will magically do a lot for them and eliminate staff.
Companies are run by stupid people.
BTTT
As far as the 95%/5% rule. Remember the dozens of PC-clone start-ups in the 80s? Only one stuck around to the present day . . . Dell (formerly PCs Limited). A few were in the game long enough to be considered a success. (e.g. Gateway, AST), and some of the well-funded startups were eventually bought out, which isn’t the same as failing (e.g. Compaq). This tendency spread down to components. There used to be a dozen serious hard drive companies, now there are effectively two and one-half (Seagate, WD, Toshiba). Gone or bought out are (Core, Priam, Rodime, Quantum, IBM/Hitachi, CMI [good riddance], Maxtor, Micropolis, MiniScribe, Samsung, Tandon)
The same applies to web services/vendors (Amazon beat the pants off of BN.com), Cryptocurrancy, social media,
I can confirm. I work for a global company with over 50,000 employees. Our company’s AI tool was introduced with great fanfare. More than a year has passed and so far its greatest use seems to be writing emails for employees that couldn’t compose a coherent email without it. I’m not sure how they managed before. It was supposed to help deliver information to customers but we’ve been told do NOT use it for provding information to customers because the information may very well be false, inaccurate, or incomplete.
Ai can be useful. I use it but I have a critical mind and intelligence that balances what I see. In my opinion Ai is a racket. It’s simply a tube that sucks information into a tidy place. I see where the new young tech startups have harnessd to a genius level. The reality for everyone else it’s regurgitated stream of garbage in and garbage out and corporations sell it as the end all being a fad that’s sold as something we can’t live without. It doesn’t replace anything that our mind is already capable of. We will lose great minds. We will lose independent thinking.
One thing I notice is how many YT videos lately have clearly been generated without reviewing them first.
Strunk and White writing principles are desperately needed to be inculcated into these programs. Would cut 50% of the video time/reading time. Way too much replication/repeat use of information.
Watch for English majors to be in high demand soon. In the early days of computer design, philosophy majors were sought out. Very few remember that.
They should expect to have issues arising during pilot programs. After all, that’s what pilot programs are for.
Good... It needs to fail...
What a stupid article. “Rapid revenue acceleration” is not the only measure of success. There is immense productivity growth in the vast majority of cases using these co-pilot tools.
There will be an “AI Crash” in the markets.
It will be an epic disaster.