[kfk]

You are not seeing maybe the numerous consultants and self proclaimed AI experts charging for very dubious solutions. Money is definitely being “stolen”, it’s just a more sophisticated type of stealing. I have yet to see an AI solution that delivers x times the value of simpler rule based models.

[themanmaran]

Consultants have always stolen money. Accenture brings in $64 billion a year overcharging for dubious solutions.

Marketing terms vary, before it was "big data", now it's "AI".

[mediaman]

You don't see value in retrieval augmented generation? It seems like one of the major use cases in knowledge management in larger organizations that is hard to replicate without an LLM.

They also seem to work very well for summarizing large amounts of data, for automating the generation of basic legal texts, for extracting key data points from paperwork (invoices, mortgage applications, bank statements, etc).

It's useful to separate whether there is a lot of dubious hype (true of any new foundational technology) from whether useful things are being done. Both can be true at the same time. Lots of fraud and stupidity, but also lots of valuable work happening. With crypto, there was none of the latter, other than criminal applications.

The internet also attracted lots of hype and poor ROI consulting projects...but here we are.

[enjo]

As an interface layer GPT is amazing. In some industries things still require humans to pick up a phone or send a text to make things happen. I’ve seen very promising results with pure LLM solutions that replace web forms people often never really understand. The ability to provide deep reporting insights from a question is huge.

I don’t think AI as a general computing platform or as a replacement for coders is particularly close but there are lots of game changing incremental things LLMs do extremely well today. Something I could never find with crypto.

[hiAndrewQuinn]

I pay 15 minutes of me take home pay every month for a chat window which I can ask any basic programming question and get a correct answer, 80% of the time, in about 20 seconds. This thing has paid for itself after it has let me avoid looking up about 4 easy Stack Overflow questions, or 1 medium complexity one.

[coffeebeqn]

I mainly use it as a rubber duck. I like that I can ask stupid questions and get mostly right information back. I’ll still verify anything important.

It’s also really quite good in transforming language A to language B if you’re learning a new programming language

[LeeroyWasHere]

Forget the consultants, the amount of fraud AI is enabling and will enable on a massive scale makes crypto look like a drop in the bucket.

[marcus_holmes]

>I have yet to see an AI solution that delivers x times the value of simpler rule based models.

The article was a pretty good demonstration of this, I thought. That kind of sentiment analysis would be very difficult using a rule based model.