I started working as a data scientist in 2019, and by 2021 I had realized that while the field was large, it was also largely fraudulent. Most of the leaders that I was working with clearly had not gotten as far as reading about it for thirty minutes despite insisting that things like, I dunno, the next five years of a ten thousand person non-tech organization should be entirely AI focused. The number of companies launching AI initiatives far outstripped the number of actual use cases. Most of the market was simply grifters and incompetents (sometimes both!) leveraging the hype to inflate their headcount so they could get promoted, or be seen as thought leaders.
And then some absolute son of a bitch created ChatGPT, and now look at us. Look at us, resplendent in our pauper's robes, stitched from corpulent greed and breathless credulity, spending half of the planet's engineering efforts to add chatbot support to every application under the sun when half of the industry hasn't worked out how to test database backups regularly. This is why I have to visit untold violence upon the next moron to propose that AI is the future of the business - not because this is impossible in principle, but because they are now indistinguishable from a hundred million willful fucking idiots.
I like this guy. :D
Yeah that's my experience of the chatbots. They're just crapping out the input, and they know how to rephrase things. I haven't seen one solve an actual problem.
That said, a robot that just does what you tell it to is good. I dunno how intelligent I need these things to be. Chatbots are not really useful to me. But I'm just saying AI applied to, I dunno, cleaning up my kitchen is good. The robot can clean it according to the instructions on YouTube.
Robots are the definition of a "Capital Investment":
"Here is the procedure. Do it forever."
"OK"
If there is any variance in any scope of this situation, the robot will produce poor results.