I’m pretty sure that a lot of people are going to end up going down rabbit holes that waste a lot of their money chasing the golden payout on AI, I also don’t t

I’m pretty sure that a lot of people are going to end up going down rabbit holes that waste a lot of their money chasing the golden payout on AI, I also don’t think it’s our typical bubble. Microsoft owns 49% and we’re already seeing its usefulness in the world of enterprise organisations where Microsoft is frankly becoming irreplaceable on the office side of things. We’re only in the early stages of using Copilot, bing agent, 365 or whatever it’s called, and it’s rapidly changing our “boring” business processes. It’s things like having it listen in on Teams meetings and write summaries. Making non-ugly sleep inducing presentations in a financial company focused on green energy… seriously… It’s replaced all our external spending on corporate designs, it’s not on par with what you’d see on top of the line communication, but it’s good enough to send out to our investors. It’s also good enough to replace any form of icon libraries and stock pictures. We use it to enhance excel (not sure how exactly, and I’m pretty sure I don’t want to know considering what lives in our shared excel sheets isn’t supposed to live there). It’s helping more digitally inclined PMs and business people automate a lot of their processes in ways no other no-code or RPA tool has ever done before them. It’s helping BI write shitty software, which is perfectly fine since we can always re-write the stuff that needs to be efficient and maintainable. And so on. But it’s also just part of the Microsoft package. If you or I buy into this, or even smaller companies do, you’re going to pay the prices listed by Microsoft. That’s not how enterprise pays though, we go through these 3rd party dealers with all sorts of fancy certifications and whatever that they pay to have, and then we buy packaged subscriptions on things we need. Of course if you compared, we probably pay more, but it doesn’t look like that on the budgets, and that’s what matters when you roll these things out. So for us AI is similar to how Microsoft Teams became our only communications tool. Not because it was better (at least not at the time) but because it was “free”. AI is also “free” for us, and because it is, it’s going to lock us even harder into Microsoft as a vendor. It’s not like there was really an alternative anyway, but now there really isn’t. And that’s not a bubble, it’ll only strengthen Microsoft unless EU or US regulation does something about it, but how can they when they’re using these tools themselves?