You have to use AI! For what? I dunno, figure it out or you're fired! <- a genius businessman, apparently...

This blind lemming-like rush towards AI that so many CEOs seem to suffer from seriously resembles cult behavior or severe drug addiction, my god...

"Doing Our Part to Make the World a Greener Place"

Clown company. You can't promote AI and do a claim like that at the same time.

"You're Absolutely right!"

By accelerating the collapse of a human survivable ecosystem we will bring about the end of humanity, resulting in a greener environment for the handful of surviving species.

As a paid, captive squirrel, focusing on spinning my workout wheel and getting my nuts at the end of the day, I hate that AI is mostly a (very expensive) solution in search of a problem. I am being told "you must use AI, find a way to use it" but my AI successes are very few and mostly non-repeatable (my current AI use case is: "try it once for non-vital, not time-sensitive stuff, if at first you don't succeed, just give up, if you succeed, you saved some time for more important stuff").

If I try to think as a CEO or an entrepreneur, though, I sort of see where these people might be coming from. They see AI as the new "internet", something that for good or bad is getting ingrained in everything we do and that will cause your company to go bankrupt for trying too hard to do things "the new way" but also to quickly fade to irrelevance if you keep doing things in the same way.

It's easy, with the benefit of hindsight, to say now "haha, Blockbuster could have bought Netflix for $50 Millions and now they are out of business", but all these people who have seen it happen are seeing AI as the new disruptive technology that can spell great success or complete doom for their current businesses.
All hype? Maybe. But if I was a CEO I'd be probably sweating too (and having a couple of VPs at my company wipe up the sweat with dollar bills)

Oooo hot take time: I'd rather work in an office again than be forced to use LLMs.

Off-topic, but not-so-fun fact: lemmings don't actually follow each other off cliffs in mass suicide events. The people filming the documentary actually scared and chased them to get them to panic and do that.

Horrible, I know

As a paid, captive squirrel, focusing on spinning my workout wheel and getting my nuts at the end of the day, I hate that AI is mostly a (very expensive) solution in search of a problem. I am being told "you must use AI, find a way to use it" but my AI successes are very few and mostly non-repeatable (my current AI use case is: "try it once for non-vital, not time-sensitive stuff, if at first you don't succeed, just give up, if you succeed, you saved some time for more important stuff").

If I try to think as a CEO or an entrepreneur, though, I sort of see where these people might be coming from. They see AI as the new "internet", something that for good or bad is getting ingrained in everything we do and that will cause your company to go bankrupt for trying too hard to do things "the new way" but also to quickly fade to irrelevance if you keep doing things in the same way.

It's easy, with the benefit of hindsight, to say now "haha, Blockbuster could have bought Netflix for $50 Millions and now they are out of business", but all these people who have seen it happen are seeing AI as the new disruptive technology that can spell great success or complete doom for their current businesses.
All hype? Maybe. But if I was a CEO I'd be probably sweating too (and having a couple of VPs at my company wipe up the sweat with dollar bills)

"The marketing and salespeople were enthused by the possibilities of working with these new tools, he added."

I see the same push where I work and I cannot get a good answer to the most basic question:

"Why?"

"We want more people using AI."

"Why?"

". . ."

Ah, so removing employees from this dumpster fire was a net positive for society.

As a paid, captive squirrel, focusing on spinning my workout wheel and getting my nuts at the end of the day, I hate that AI is mostly a (very expensive) solution in search of a problem. I am being told "you must use AI, find a way to use it" but my AI successes are very few and mostly non-repeatable (my current AI use case is: "try it once for non-vital, not time-sensitive stuff, if at first you don't succeed, just give up, if you succeed, you saved some time for more important stuff").

If I try to think as a CEO or an entrepreneur, though, I sort of see where these people might be coming from. They see AI as the new "internet", something that for good or bad is getting ingrained in everything we do and that will cause your company to go bankrupt for trying too hard to do things "the new way" but also to quickly fade to irrelevance if you keep doing things in the same way.

It's easy, with the benefit of hindsight, to say now "haha, Blockbuster could have bought Netflix for $50 Millions and now they are out of business", but all these people who have seen it happen are seeing AI as the new disruptive technology that can spell great success or complete doom for their current businesses.
All hype? Maybe. But if I was a CEO I'd be probably sweating too (and having a couple of VPs at my company wipe up the sweat with dollar bills)

The only difference between AI and NFTs is that the market believes in it.

There are use cases for AI. There are none for NFTs.

One use case is whenever you need to produce some inane bullshit that nobody is probably going to read anyway, but it's still required for some reason. Like cover letters.

Now, you might argue that we should work towards a society where we don't have to produce this inane bullshit that nobody's going to read anyway, and I would agree with you. But as long as we're here, we might as well offload this pointless labor onto a pointless labor-saving machine.