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I appreciate your comment, and I think it may be oversimplifying.
For example, it's pretty universal that MSP's should be avoided. And to be wary of businesses that push a "culture."
I'd recommend looking at businesses that have a flexible WFH policy, or that are at the very least not pushing remote workers back into the office.
Agree 100% about Blockchain/crypto. I'm tempted to add AI to that list. It's basically the new crypto-bro scam.
AI is at least useful in situations, unlike crypto. Though I am skeptical of how much more it will be able to do in the current form. Once it has more integrations into things other than chat and pictures I'll be more interested. A way to find an optimal path through some work quickly should be the goal.
AI is the study of tasks where humans still outperform computers.
Once computers get better it’s just an algorithm.
People mistake LLM for general intelligence, but AI is such a buzzword.
Recently had a meeting outlining our business units current five year plan with our top executives (C-level). The amount of times AI was mentioned was ridiculous. The CEO even managed to suggest that “six years ago there was no AI”.
This is a company with a billion euro revenue, and you can play bullshit bingo in the executive meetings.
I do think that “AI” applications has much greater potential now than before, but that’s in part because of the availability of LLM’s and in part because of awareness of the field that ChatGPT has created.
It means we can now get funding to actually do a research project with an unknown outcome because the potential upside is 10x.
But using “AI” in business is certainly not new. The business intelligence people have been doing it for a good while, over a decade.