[robviren]

My personal take as a PM is to find narrow opportunities for the tech where it makes most sense and poses the least risk. One project we are looking at it to tune a model against our website with URL links to make a more natural search function given the utter labyrinth of a website we currently have. Not insane given the two search giants are applying the same idea. We can reduce hallucination by validating URLs it produces before hitting the user. Also build up a list of questions and not just search queiries.

Other avenues are more human accelerators than replacement. I have been around long enough that I if a tool presents a risk to someones job the tool often gets thrown down the stairs "accidentally". GE bought in hard to Google glass back in the day and tried having it walk through procedures for complex repair processes. A great idea if literally anyone in the field asked for it.

I'm with many that the hype train hit hard for "AI" and block chain, but LLMs for me do have real value and real application for some excellent use cases. I also find it an excellent sounding board for my own ideas, though the models tend to not want to disappoint you.

[chasd00]

i work for a large consulting firm that is cheerleading LLMs very hard. I've yet to see a use case beyond a better chat bot and knowledge base search. I've also yet to hear about a large client putting an LLM in production, it's all been experimental and the total sum earned on generative AI projects in our firm last year was < $500M

I'm not saying the hype isn't real but i'm definitely skeptical.

edit: for context my firm screamed to high heaven how the whole metaverse thing was a game changer too. I called that one BS right out of the gate.