@alebaffa2 @tante Sorry, your scare tactics simply don't work on us. "You're at risk if you don't start now" is pure hype.
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I sincerely think we are seeing propaganda to push AI adoption and disrupt and cripple business workflows so that when there are no other reliable options, these services can be sold at just slightly less than what it would have cost before. Tunneling all investment solely into tech companies.
@tante Like all those rich Tulip Bulb companies in the early 1600’s
Great point! If AI was truly inevitable and everyone loved it, why spend $500K per influencer to convince people?
Real value sells itself. This feels like hype-driven marketing, not organic adoption.
The bubble signs are there. 💭
@tante one wonders why wouldn't they spin gen ai to market itself?
@tante Street vendors of hair growers. Nevers get old.
And who copes with all the externalities? Browers are doing proof of work calculations to access many websites. That's more energy consumption added.
@tante they threw too much money pushing it into everything that didn't need any AI. Take Copilot in Windows, or in Office: just unnecessary.
But the tools for software development, i can tell you as a software engineer, that this stuff just revolutionized our field completely. It's a tectonic activity that just changed it for good. Those who deny it are those who still didn't use it seriously.
@alebaffa2 @tante Sorry, your scare tactics simply don't work on us. "You're at risk if you don't start now" is pure hype.
@jaredwhite @tante i hope it will be so too.
Damn. What am I doing wrong?
@tante They're burning the money they don't *actually* have on this
@ariarhythmic not fully true. Microsoft and Google do have the cash. Not from "AI" revenue but from all their other sources.
@tante @ariarhythmic And that's the worrisome part for me. It's almost a given that most of these AI companies won't survive because they aren't profitable. But Microsoft and Google don't necessary need it to be profitable. In the end, AI will likely stick around and be controlled by one a few companies. Doesn't sound worrisome at all...
@tante Indeed, but it's probably safe to assume part of that recklessness in spending is caused by their jump in valuation from the bubble
It's stupid anyway, though, I don't see how that 100,000$ given to a YouTuber could provide a substantial return on investment
@tante "and even LinkedIn". I'm shocked.
@tante it's going to be awkward for the legions of people doing it for free
@tante they try to milk the cow as long as it's not dead. It's one of the biggest investor driven scams in IT history.
@tante capex investments grabbing headlines (which they’ll never recoup), but the ongoing investment in product, sales and marketing is probably greater than the revenue they’re getting. Just a huge hole that they’re trying to dig themselves out of by adding more shovels
@tante Meanwhile, IBM is already marketing „quantum-enabled AI“. Because executives from lots of companies believe they want it.
https://www.ibm.com/thought-leadership/institute-business-value/en-us/report/enterprise-2030
