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Before the new year, some executives made it known they wanted a chatgpt like interface to answer questions about a service. Current page gets less than a thous
by bloopernova 3y ago
Before the new year, some executives made it known they wanted a chatgpt like interface to answer questions about a service. Current page gets less than a thousand visits a month. Current page has a list of answers on one page, and costs a few cents to run. Executives want AI everywhere to the point of fiduciary irresponsibility.
My poorly made point being: executives have been driven insane by AI/ML hype.
- goostavos 3y agoExecutives, senior leadership, middle management trying to please leadership, engineers trying to get promoted... everyone has been whipped into a frenzy. I sat through a two day (all day) "retreat" (conference room in our regular office) where people tripped over themselves to present their teams innovative AI ideas to leadership. "It's a chat bot that..." "It's a chat bot that..." "It's a chat bot that..."
- johnnyanmac 3y agoA shame, I went into tech to escape all these fleeting fads. But ofc I end up taking Computer Science in college right when Tech is blowing up (I really just looked at STEM fields and picked the best engineering I saw in each college. I coulda easily been a mechanical or electrical engineer if I wasn't accepted at the school I went to) so I end up seeing all sorts of booms and busts. mobile, cloud, data science, ML. Now AI. I just wanna make pretty graphics go fast. I don't need to turn everything into a cloud based app with an LLM attached to it.
- Terr_ 3y agoMeanwhile, I'm over at a company where one of our most important products is literally a white-label-able chatbot, and we are very careful to corral any "AI" off into specific controllable parts. This is partly because it needs to output reliable well-structured data for downstream integrations.