Crikey!

We're like family!

Any CEO who says AI would replace staff is pandering to short-term investors.
They're not a long-term visionary.

I am currently going through the algebra/calculus used to train LLM's, in order to better write ai agents in my chosen niche.

It remains to be seen exactly what future ai has in terms of eliminating white collar office jobs.

I would be very surprised if LLM's achieved anything approaching AGI in my lifetime (if ever). I would be surprised if LLM's alone got to a point where they could replace white collar office jobs in at least the next decade (but concede it is not impossible at some point). I wouldn't want to bet what might happen beyond a decade either way. I think large parts of many office jobs can be made redundant by ai agents working in conjunction with LLM's now or in the near future. But getting those agents accurate enough is not easy, and still require quite a lot of human intervention.

Any AI toaster/coffee machine/bed you might see available to buy today is just nonsense, presumably the result of companies hyping ai in order to try and return some sort of short term income from the massive capital expenditure.

Leave it to the banks to be the real salt scum of the earth

“It’s just numbers! How difficult can it be!”

“How many b’s are in the word Blueberry?”

Well... Considering that salt renders soil infertile... Not that far off frankly

... and we'll just go buy some cigarettes now.

100% agree - we're in the classic Gartner hype cycle where execs jump on tech without understanding it, then reality hits when the tech isn't magicaly ready yet for what they imagned.

The only way most companies should really be utilizing AI, if at all, should be automating repetitive, well-defined, internal processes so Bob from accounting can go do something actually productive, instead of merging the same 5 excel sheets every day. Attempting to automate the customer interacting side of things with a cold, unthinking, and easily manipulated machine is so insane.