No worries. I’m genuinely curious. I have yet to find people from software (other than those bound by VC funds chasing AI badge) who are as excited by “AI” as those who just admire musk/altman
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I am not exactly "excited" and those two are sock puppets for their funders. But I am realistic. The same way that JS was not ready for primetime when it came to prominence. FFS the dev himself was horrified. It was pushed for much the same reasons as AI hysteria over platform interop / universal human interface elements and the "Java" brand being hot in big dollar land.
so whatever it does well will be the beach head. It will have asymmetric cost advantage compared to any human centred process of same kind. (take a look at the new 2 bit quantized models. tldr: tiny, fast, same accuracy)
That drags in more capital since yield hard to find in this financial macro environment. This year I have watched my friends in the law, in engineering, dev, wood products manufacturing, music, agriculture all find profitable use for some ai driven processes in their operations. These are normies. These are not technical people.
Its coming fren. exponentially fast.
I would really appreciate to hear your normies friends experience how “AI” helped them! Would be great if this could be a longer article
Especially would be interested to hear stories from engineering and manufacturing since it seemed to me top-notch machine learning practices are getting adopted there for last decade and somehow without llm-level hype hysteria :) would be amazing to hear how “real engineers” prompting chat gpt to boost their productivity!
Engineers are using as supplemental research resources on compliance side. The wood brokers are using a RAG to support sales process with research boilerplate, the architects are super excited about how ai in unreal engine changing their workflow for the better.
Poke around and run some local models. There's a bunch of low level.uses. stuff you could train a dummy to do abounds in this world.