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To be fair, customers are part of the hype feedback loop. I have seen actual conversations with non-tech workers that boil down to "when we ask these people wh

To be fair, customers are part of the hype feedback loop. I have seen actual conversations with non-tech workers that boil down to "when we ask these people what they want AI to do, they say they don't know, but boy do they get excited every time we mention adding AI"

asdff 3y ago
Using AI customer service chatbots really is a hoot. The most egregious examples they add an ai autocomplete service to your replies. So the thing asks you for your email and in the textbox its so very helpfully prefilled bob@example.com that you now need to overwrite with your actual email. Pretty fun to think of the resources consumed delivering this experience too
UtopiaPunk 3y ago
Are customers really asking for AI soda flavors, tho? https://us.coca-cola.com/products/coke-creations/y3000-limited-edition-soda https://us.coca-cola.com/products/coke-creations/y3000-limit...
- majani 3y ago
  smacking AI on anything is probably an easy promotion for the next couple years
  - kjellsbells 3y ago
    Ding! We have a winner. It is exactly that. No different really from 1999 products slapping Internet on everything or 2020 ones inserting crypto. Most importantly of all, its what investors and stockholders want to see now, and they will punish the stock price of anything that doesnt have an AI strategy.
- edgyquant 3y ago
  I wonder if they just pasted their recipe into ChatGPT and asked “how can I make this taste better?”
- mananaysiempre 3y ago
  They did at one point ask for cosmetics with thorium and radium[1], so who knows. [1] http://museumofradium.co.uk/tho-radia/ http://museumofradium.co.uk/tho-radia/
therouwboat 3y ago
I saw post in this general purpose forum where this guy claimed he asked chatgpt to learn about cnc-milling machines and material properties and produce g-code to mill a gear. People were replying "I dont understand, but thats cool!" etc. I checked his code and it did circle with G3 and then it did "finishing pass" which was also circle by rotating the chuck or A-axle. When I asked him about it, he just said "Oh, I didn't look at the code"
ryandrake 3y ago
The new "blockchain". We don't know what problems we want to solve, but we sure know that we need to solve them with AI!

asdff 3y ago

Using AI customer service chatbots really is a hoot. The most egregious examples they add an ai autocomplete service to your replies. So the thing asks you for your email and in the textbox its so very helpfully prefilled bob@example.com that you now need to overwrite with your actual email. Pretty fun to think of the resources consumed delivering this experience too

UtopiaPunk 3y ago

Are customers really asking for AI soda flavors, tho? https://us.coca-cola.com/products/coke-creations/y3000-limited-edition-soda https://us.coca-cola.com/products/coke-creations/y3000-limit...

majani 3y ago
smacking AI on anything is probably an easy promotion for the next couple years
- kjellsbells 3y ago
  Ding! We have a winner. It is exactly that. No different really from 1999 products slapping Internet on everything or 2020 ones inserting crypto. Most importantly of all, its what investors and stockholders want to see now, and they will punish the stock price of anything that doesnt have an AI strategy.
edgyquant 3y ago
I wonder if they just pasted their recipe into ChatGPT and asked “how can I make this taste better?”
mananaysiempre 3y ago
They did at one point ask for cosmetics with thorium and radium[1], so who knows. [1] http://museumofradium.co.uk/tho-radia/ http://museumofradium.co.uk/tho-radia/

therouwboat 3y ago

I saw post in this general purpose forum where this guy claimed he asked chatgpt to learn about cnc-milling machines and material properties and produce g-code to mill a gear. People were replying "I dont understand, but thats cool!" etc. I checked his code and it did circle with G3 and then it did "finishing pass" which was also circle by rotating the chuck or A-axle. When I asked him about it, he just said "Oh, I didn't look at the code"

ryandrake 3y ago

The new "blockchain". We don't know what problems we want to solve, but we sure know that we need to solve them with AI!