https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chatgpt-cost-bomb-openais-losses-125101043.html
Are there any strong examples I can cite where AI has delivered/over delivered? Or majority of them vaporware?
For example, all the ML involved in the image processing on modern smartphone cameras. Or ML models used to recognize and extract text from images or video. I find these things extremely useful, and with them happening on-device, there isn’t a giant hungry datacenter required to use it.
The other day I was sent a screenshot of a table in a website by my boss and needed to add information for each row. I was table to highlight it all out of the image and paste it into Excel and it required only very minor cleanup thanks to the ML. If this was 5 years ago I probably would have had to re-type it all by hand, or just hand back a much worse product.
Sure, this is just better OCR, but I find these types of things have a bunch bigger positive impact on my day-to-day life than whatever the newest AI startup is pitching.
it's turning learning and search into a compute bound problem accessibly by SWEs and DSs.
It's not like they'll lose money forever. Some end up like telcos, just a part of the background. Some end up like FAANG, utilizing an advantage until they become rich and die from complacency. Some end up enshittifying like Twitter/X and Reddit; they hit the brakes hard to cut costs but users still don't leave.