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Experienced software developers assumed AI would save them a chunk of time. But in one experiment, their tasks took 20% longer (fortune.com)
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[–] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Are they though? They've invested like a trillion dollars into this and it doesn't seem any closer to actually making money.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    True. The AI parents are having issues. We all know OpenAI is hemorrhaging money. I think Anthropic is as well. They are all passing money between each other. But software companies, like the one I work for, don’t care what those companies are doing. As long as my company can use services provided by the AI parents, it’s not an issue if the AI parents themselves are losing money. Or if software companies can shove out their own AI feature (like the AI in ServiceNow or how Office 365 is getting some rebranding), all is well and they can brag about having AI to the shareholders.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    That'll work right up until the shareholders start hearing "we got AI!" as the equivalent to "we invested in Enron!". I hope they have a plan for that.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Me it reminds me of that period of time where A/B testing was big and everybody and their mother had to at least do some. Never mind that it solved problems we didn't have, it still was a cool thing to say in a meeting lol

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