True story time. I was talking to a guy at $dayjob and he says he’s been talking with a third party company, whose solution we might buy. I asked him how the talks with them went and he said they were negotiating and I asked him how that was going.
He offhandedly said that he asked if and how they were using AI at all in their solution. I asked “Why did you ask about AI?”, since I was sort of curious what benefit he was looking for.
He said “Well, it’s not that I actually care about AI in their product, but if they don’t have any AI stuff, I can use that as leverage when negotiating the contract for a lower price.”
I was a bit astonished and he did kinda knowingly smile. He said “yea I know, I am part of the problem”. He also said “it’s also about taking a temperature on how ahead in technology the company is”.
I just wanted to share cause this is so insidious. Companies are asking each other about AI, despite the fact that (at least sometimes) nobody actually wants it! They are asking in order to use the lack of AI as leverage, which incentivizes companies to include AI in their offerings, not because it’s actually useful, but because it gives them leverage to raise prices!
This really makes AI seem more and more like a bubble.
Same. The funny thing is the people in the group dont even like it. They’ve been using actual machine learning for decades so this bs is just a waste of time to them.
I will say ive given it many chances to help me out and its never once worked. Its always wasted far more time than its saved.
It maybe helped me on an excel macro once, but it was still wrong and I had to fix it anyways.
I’m sure it depends on what your actual goal is. I would never trust it to give me factual information but for 20-lines of LISP I can immediately test, it’s been pretty good.