Haven't heard much about it in a while. My boss at work keeps telling us to use AI to do things AI isn't capable of doing without so many errors it takes more time to review the AI output than to just do it myself.
I noticed a lot of AI datacenters that were talked about mostly all stalled.
What's the current situation on AI?
Not as far as I can see. We're putting AI in everything while entire departments are being laid off and every Indian in the company is using AI to the point they don't even bother to make an argument other than the AI said X.
Which industry?
I just can't imagine how AI can replace departments when it produces so many errors.
The entire AI industry is just exploding. We have courses, certifications and specialists.
It is being used as assistance and it is incredibly useful. I have an Indian colleague, highly certified with more years of cloud experience than AWS has been made for commercial use and was on the project for more than 2 years before I joined. We use terraform as IAC, he is certified in terraform ofc, he didn't know the bases of AWS and his code would never even run. He was comically incompetent.
He has been using AI for some times now and he writes half decent code and his skills are actually ok. He does tasks and he is almost independent.
That is the power of AI, it bring the most incompetent to a decent level. Not only that, I've been working with support at large costs and I'm sure a large portion of the responses from AWS or Microsoft or RedHat are being done by AI. It's disgusting that we pay for this support level.
I actually do think AI has a use for coding. Outside of that, I haven't seen much. With proper integration in an academic level we could essentially have all young people be coders soon, which may lead to a lot of innovation but not necessarily in AI itself.
Works well for code but is not limited to that. Tasks that are easy conceptually but you want to allow non-tech people to see it. For instance we use AI to generate analysis on security policies inside AWS. We don't need this ourselves but the security team has no clue about cloud so the info is useful for them. It's dynamic and runs regularly and was built really fast.