I love this AI rant from Ludicity. It’s over the top, but captures the essence of the nonsense that surrounds AI at present.
I’m not going to piledrive anyone, but it does seem that the case for AI has been overstated as the technology currently stands. ChatGPT is a very impressive chatbot. If you need a very impressive chatbot, then it’s just the ticket. It will impact certain use cases in business dramatically (e.g., front line customer service and support, low level outbound sales, etc.) but as it stands, it just doesn’t go much beyond those sorts of narrow activities.
The best point in the article is that, instead of getting distracted by bright shiny things, organizations should focus on getting the basics right and then augment what they need by using models developed by experts in AI to deliver value where it makes sense. A great chatbot doesn’t add much value if you don’t have quality data. Garbage in, garbage out still applies to LLMs.
I can’t predict the future. I’m not even gonna try, but in the present AI is overblown as an all-encompassing savior. In time, we will get the answer but it seems about 50/50 to me whether this fizzles out and we move to the next thing in the line of quantum computing, blockchain, AI and ?