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by bobxmax 431 days ago
Yeah, well reasoned take.

Hackernews is way too defensive about AI. Open AI didn't go from 0 to $5b because of hype, it got there because of how useful it is.

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It's useful alright, but not to us.

I wish people would understand ChatGPT is a toy for consumers, and the real prize of AI is handling the mountains of data tech has been leeching for years.

Sam puts out vague worries of AGI Armageddon so CNBC anchors, who can't even turn their computer on, can argue about that all day because it's juicy. These are the same people that thought the Metaverse was a huge deal, and not just unfinished plans for VR Second Life.

Meanwhile, any company with good AI tech and enough data can classify, minimize, eradicate, and automate as much of our lives as possible. There's going to be no regulation on it, because we have never been about to keep up with text regulation.

And we are told we signed up for it when we were 15, trying to log into an app store on the new device all of our friends had.

I strongly disagree with that, because it's not useful. That company exists on hype alone.
Of course, the millions of people using it every day are doing it because of hype.

The clueless arrogance of devs on HN will never cease to amaze me.

Give me a real enterprise use case...If it existed, Google would not be offering their model for free...
- customer support automation - marketing copy - sales automation - internal knowledge base - analytics - onboarding & hr - notetaking

do you want me to keep going?

customer support automation - "Sorry, I didn’t understand your request. Please type your issue again…" is the fastest way to make someone hate your brand.

marketing copy -> Not paying my marketing team to put out obliviously AI generated texts. People will notice and will hurt the company reputation.

sales automation - As in? Perfect place for random hallucinations?

internal knowledge base - Search in pretty good in full text. Training a model with all company data will be too expensive to justify the benefits of finding the correct technote one second faster? Plus do we want to hallucinate while doing airplane maintenance?

analytics - Not enough to justify current valuations.

onboarding & hr - Really? Hallucinations cough...cough

notetaking - You need AI for that?

lol always leave it to ignorant devs on HN to speak a bunch of nonsense confidently

you know absolutely nothing about how enterprise companies work and why 10% of the internet pay to use chatgpt

use case: my company pays for enterprise ChatGPT