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Yeah nah. The tech is pretty impressive but it can’t replace more entry level jobs than can be achieved with pre-ai technology. Treat it like a tool and find use cases that make sense. I’d like to see small, efficient, specialized local models to help with doing basic or repetitive stuff.
It's so bizarre working in software development for a non-tech company.
Management is like "can you use it to automate X?" And my answer is almost always "No. It will do an unreliable job of that. But if you want X automated just TELL me that's what you want and I can seriously automate it for you in a day or two by just writing a tool"
Nope.
It blows my mind how much Management doesn't give two fucking shits about the RESULT. They ONLY want to be able to tell shareholders that something was accomplished USING AI.
Oh, and for what it's worth... since I've been at this company, I've had the same question asked of:
The Blockchain
The Metaverse
Getting questions which are solutions in search of a problem has been a harbinger of a hype train heading for a derailment
I feel you. Can’t wait for AI to go the way of the blockchain :)
My work deals with parts that get damaged in shipping pretty often, and every shipper has different ways they want things formatted and different asinine ways that descriptions make sense that it's a pain to describe damage so that it doesn't turn into an email chain... So our IS team trained a model to take in 3-4 images of part damage and what shipper it's from and it generates everything for us to review and send. Saves a bunch of busywork for exactly that.
That’s a good use case! Provided it doesn’t hallucinate something, but you can always have automated validation steps.