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By that metric, every single software company is now an AI company. I can't think of a SINGLE company (except ours maybe, only because we haven't updated our w

by atonse 1y ago

By that metric, every single software company is now an AI company. I can't think of a SINGLE company (except ours maybe, only because we haven't updated our website yet, not because we don't want to) that doesn't vomit AI terms _everywhere_ in their product messaging. I don't know whether consumers/buyers are demanding that, or what. But it seems everywhere and in every discipline. It's in research grant applications, it's in legal tech, everywhere. AI is the new "we use the internet" - it will just get taken for granted.

skeeter2020 1y ago
I agree with the GP and you - every company IS desperate to be an AI company today. They've been told three things: 1. this time it's different, 2. AI is disrupting everything, 3. if you don't disrupt yourself someone else will. # 1 has been said repeatedly before every previous AI winter. #2 is a lie from people trying to sell you something and the FOMOs parroting the same line. #3 someone is going to disrupt you regardless, and it's impossible to disrupt yourself (unless you're prepared to stop doing everything that made you successful in the first place)
bakugo 1y ago
> I don't know whether consumers/buyers are demanding that, or what. Consumers aren't demanding it, investors are. They see the hype and ridiculous amounts of money being invested into AI startups, and they're afraid of missing out, so they throw their own money in. No time to stop and think about it, there's too much hype and things are moving too fast. Then other investors see even more money being thrown in, and throw more money in themselves - monkey see, monkey do. Repeat ad infinitum and the next thing you know, majority of venture capital is being blindly funneled into anything AI related. If you're leading some unrelated company and paying attention to where all this money is flowing, the path forward is obvious: simply become an AI company. Doesn't matter if you're actually building something valuable with it or not, because as long as your landing page fulfills a certain quota of AI buzzwords, the investors won't care. They only care about making the line go up, because it's good when the line goes up. It's a bubble.

by atonse 1y ago

skeeter2020 1y ago

I agree with the GP and you - every company IS desperate to be an AI company today. They've been told three things: 1. this time it's different, 2. AI is disrupting everything, 3. if you don't disrupt yourself someone else will. # 1 has been said repeatedly before every previous AI winter. #2 is a lie from people trying to sell you something and the FOMOs parroting the same line. #3 someone is going to disrupt you regardless, and it's impossible to disrupt yourself (unless you're prepared to stop doing everything that made you successful in the first place)

bakugo 1y ago

> I don't know whether consumers/buyers are demanding that, or what. Consumers aren't demanding it, investors are. They see the hype and ridiculous amounts of money being invested into AI startups, and they're afraid of missing out, so they throw their own money in. No time to stop and think about it, there's too much hype and things are moving too fast. Then other investors see even more money being thrown in, and throw more money in themselves - monkey see, monkey do. Repeat ad infinitum and the next thing you know, majority of venture capital is being blindly funneled into anything AI related. If you're leading some unrelated company and paying attention to where all this money is flowing, the path forward is obvious: simply become an AI company. Doesn't matter if you're actually building something valuable with it or not, because as long as your landing page fulfills a certain quota of AI buzzwords, the investors won't care. They only care about making the line go up, because it's good when the line goes up. It's a bubble.