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I think we’re quite a long way off before they actually crash and burn, if they ever do. We have no idea how much money the ads will inject and they also receive significant government contracts and will probably get a lot more going forward
If the market can pretend Tesla is worth so much i think it can easily sustain AI for many years
It's already been several years. Tesla had an actual product that people wanted. Yes, they've been doing their best of late to torpedo their market share and brand name but at one point they were doing what they set out to do. Open AI has never done what they said they would do.
Kinda but also not entirely. I know a lot of people who use ChatGPT and other AIs at work and it does basically exactly what they want and just gets better
I’m not a proponent but the naysayer doomers are almost as wrong as the tech evangelists
Is it overvalued? Sure
Is it worthless? Absolutely not
That's cool. I have yet to find a use case for AI. Am I doing it wrong or are they just bad with computers?
I am with gustofwind here. I use AI to help me quickly draft up mindless policies, then read through it and edit it where needed. It is a lot faster than any typing I can do.
I also use it to help me find configs for stuff I deploy, but I make sure it attaches the source link for me, so I can read the original source docs and keep a sane approach to what I am doing.
Again, I also think it is way overvalued, but to say it has not helped me build successful stuff over the past 2 years would be a lie. My 2c
I think my and many others’ problem with your use case is the mindless policy part, not the genAI part.
We need more mindless policies in this world like we need measles and more holes in our heads, but that’s all this shop is making, busy work for itself to summarize for the same lazy morons who generated it.
Note that Tesla was clearly a viable business, I don't see the justification for it being 3 times the value of ford, gm, Toyota, and Honda all put together.
Generally people are not challenging the fundamental possibility of these as viable business, just that they don't make sense at their valuations.
Though I'll agree that open ai particularly should get some skepticism. To the extent that actionable business models might emerge, I don't see openai actually in a position to be a big party of any of it. Microsoft and Anthropic seem to mostly own business revenue, ChatGPT is generally not even providing the models people select when they are able to choose.