This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
MANY companies aren’t profitable for several years. The one I work at wasn’t for 2 decades. It’s a long game.
So I'll be getting job interviews soon? Right?
"Well, we could hire humans...but they tell us the next update will fix everything! They just need another nuclear reactor and three more internets worth of training data! We're almost there!"
he'll yeah, lose money you fuckers
For me that aren't good with scripting AI can actually fill a educational role. Or at least point me in correct direction so I can complete the rest myself.
Reading the article, the conclusions seem to line up with what I experience. Namely the part where it says that individual users found a productivity boost.
At my company, we have a bunch of AI based tools set up, and it's impressive how much of the time consuming, boring, burnout-inducing gruntwork I can offload to the robots, and instead spend more of my working hours working on things I actually want to work on.
And we also deploy things like AI search for internal knowledge bases. Being able to quickly get the information you need to complete your job, especially if that information is related to sales is definitely good for business, but I'm not even sure how you'd measure that in terms of "profit".
Why do they keep throwing their money away on it?
In no small part because they see it as a time-limited gateway to permanent, infinite profits through market consolidation, job cutting, and government contracts. After all, if they get there FIRST, it's all theirs, and the infinite profits then will make up for all the money spent now. Never mind the fact that in doing so they'll destroy the environment, the economy, and the world long before they can actually SPEND those profits on anything.
It worked for Google. They corraled a majority of the internet into providing them add revenue. Google maps, Gmail, google search engine, youtube... all just more ways for them to scrape your data and serve you adds. Investors are hedging their bets on what could replace google as the information monopoly of the future.
Good
The first problem is the name. It's NOT artificial intelligence, it's artificial stupidity.
People BOUGHT intelligence but GOT stupidity.
Bubbles burst, who would have thought.
Where is the MIT study in question? The link in the article, apparently to a PDF, redirects elsewhere
It's also making people deskill.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langas/article/PIIS2468-1253(25)00133-5/abstract
