Will A.I. Be a Bust? A Wall Street Skeptic Rings the Alarm

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The article quotes Goldman Sachs’s head of stock research Jim Covello saying that he counted 40 billboards about artificial intelligence between SFO and San Jose.

My question is how ubiquitous is AI? Here in Poland maybe just 1 in 100 people I know are using it. Stories I hear from the US is this is far higher there.

The impact AI has had on my personal productivity is immense.

So is really a hype?

My only experience with real-world LLM use is by devs at my workplace (where we develop advanced deep learning systems). We went through an experimental phase where most devs tried it out.

These days, all but one or two have stopped using it. On the whole, few felt that the upsides were worth the downsides.

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