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True, but I don't think it's because of any specific characteristics of the technology, other than it's got right now. CEOs want support for investment in their

True, but I don't think it's because of any specific characteristics of the technology, other than it's got right now. CEOs want support for investment in their business, and the way to get it is to frame whatever they're doing in terms of the topic du jour. There's also a cya element as investors and board would ask why they aren't focused on something everyone is talking about. Big businesses that sell to c-level know this too and frame these offerings accordingly. Big tech consulting companies will only ever be selling some variation on dashboards, but they're described as big data, data & analysis, deep learning, generative AI, whatever the trend is. Nothing wrong with it, being a contrarian is hard, better to accept the way the wind is going and adapt accordingly. My main point is that it's way less about anything specific that AI can do, vs getting people on board.

ShamelessC 3y ago
> Nothing wrong with it. Well it's rather depressing for the rest of us. So there's that.
Guthur 3y ago
Share but backs were a simple, low risk way to inflate the share price and so every major company was spending cash pushing the price higher. Lay offs were worth a few percentage points on the share price. So everyone had an incentive to take away someone's salary. "AI" is worth a few percentage points and so will be talked about as long as the payback is there. None of these are going to meaningful change these companies or our societies for the better, they are only to continue asset price inflation. Because with out it the illusion would begin to crumble.
graycat 3y ago
Some big companies, university computer science departments, etc. pursuing AI!!! Fine with me!!!! The crucial core technology, secret sauce, some math I derived, in my startup is NOT "AI" and, for the problem my startup is intended to solve, more focused than "AI". Net, (1) for the problem I'm solving the approaches of current AI won't deliver anything competitive with my math, and (2) as long as these companies, etc. pursue AI they will be doing that much less work that might compete with me!!!! History: There is along history, decades with computers and centuries without, of math yielding terrific results -- Euclid, Pythagoras, Newton, Leibniz, Gauss, ..., Riemann, Hilbert, von Neumann, ..., to the present. Yes, some of current AI seems to have made good progress on non-linear anomaly/problem detection and diagnosis and, in these cases, done work that is good progress on what used to be done with, say, statistical anomaly detection, maybe non-parametric statistics. But apparently now mostly and/or nearly all of current AI, e.g.. LLMs (large language models), are for different work. So, again, net, current AI does not seem competitive with my use of math so that I'm pleased -- partly joking and poking fun but not entirely!
mahmoudimus 3y ago
100% this. I am in the middle of this right now. I advise a bunch of companies and this is 100% top of mind.

ShamelessC 3y ago

> Nothing wrong with it. Well it's rather depressing for the rest of us. So there's that.

Guthur 3y ago

Share but backs were a simple, low risk way to inflate the share price and so every major company was spending cash pushing the price higher. Lay offs were worth a few percentage points on the share price. So everyone had an incentive to take away someone's salary. "AI" is worth a few percentage points and so will be talked about as long as the payback is there. None of these are going to meaningful change these companies or our societies for the better, they are only to continue asset price inflation. Because with out it the illusion would begin to crumble.

graycat 3y ago

Some big companies, university computer science departments, etc. pursuing AI!!! Fine with me!!!! The crucial core technology, secret sauce, some math I derived, in my startup is NOT "AI" and, for the problem my startup is intended to solve, more focused than "AI". Net, (1) for the problem I'm solving the approaches of current AI won't deliver anything competitive with my math, and (2) as long as these companies, etc. pursue AI they will be doing that much less work that might compete with me!!!! History: There is along history, decades with computers and centuries without, of math yielding terrific results -- Euclid, Pythagoras, Newton, Leibniz, Gauss, ..., Riemann, Hilbert, von Neumann, ..., to the present. Yes, some of current AI seems to have made good progress on non-linear anomaly/problem detection and diagnosis and, in these cases, done work that is good progress on what used to be done with, say, statistical anomaly detection, maybe non-parametric statistics. But apparently now mostly and/or nearly all of current AI, e.g.. LLMs (large language models), are for different work. So, again, net, current AI does not seem competitive with my use of math so that I'm pleased -- partly joking and poking fun but not entirely!

mahmoudimus 3y ago

100% this. I am in the middle of this right now. I advise a bunch of companies and this is 100% top of mind.