I don't think it's going away. I do however doubt how useful it will be moving forward.

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I don't think it's going away. I do however doubt how useful it will be moving forward.

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Based on what expertise?

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Lol... if you think AI is going away, you live in a fairytale world.

All enterprises are slowly adopting it in all aspects of business. Every CIO I talk to these days has their own AI protocol and is looking to further implement effectively. Most companies, especially in Houston, will slowly adopt it, but if you are a company who refuses to do so, you will eventually fall behind.

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I didn't say it was going away. I just think all the hype and investment is going to burst.

Everyone said "not a chance" in 1999 and we all remember what happened.

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nai06 said:

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I don't think it's going away. I do however doubt how useful it will be moving forward.

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Based on what expertise?

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Just experience with same as everyone else and follow the news and evaluations of people that work with it in ways different than I do.


I'm not convinced it's the magic bullet people make it out to be. AI has some major problems that no one seems able or willing to address

AI is going to be a very big deal. Monumental shift, both for those who understand it and use it to their advantage and the laggards who discount/ignore it. Just in different directions.

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AI is going to be a very big deal. Monumental shift, both for those who understand it and use it to their advantage and the laggards who discount/ignore it. Just in different directions.

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Ok in what ways? Be specific, what is this going to change?

So far I am using it to increase productivity by automating repetitive tasks and increasing creativity, communication, and employee engagement/development. Also using it to decrease my rate of making mistakes from 1-2 a year to non-existent (so far).

I've also used it to enhance my options trading, specifically selling 30-40 DTE covered calls and balancing the Greeks to roll at the best possible time. About to turn it loose on the family budget, but I'm not sure I want my wife to know how much I'm spending on my M3 and 4Runner

The biggest thing I'm tired of is the sentence structure it uses. I can pick out an AI scripted post immediately at this point. AI posts all sound the same regardless of the topic.

And it's very tiresome because posts are becoming commoditized into using the same sentence structure on everything.

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So far I am using it to increase productivity by automating repetitive tasks and increasing creativity, communication, and employee engagement/development. Also using it to decrease my rate of making mistakes from 1-2 a year to non-existent (so far).

I've also used it to enhance my options trading, specifically selling 30-40 DTE covered calls and balancing the Greeks to roll at the best possible time. About to turn it loose on the family budget, but I'm not sure I want my wife to know how much I'm spending on my M3 and 4Runner

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Do you think it does a good job of this?

I ask because I see AI generated communication and creative writing on a daily basis and it's always dog *****

Maybe don't assess it based upon its ability to write interesting stories and rather on its ability to create a paragraph on technical explanations/completing discrete tasks. Don't think does it do a good job today, but rather what it does relative to what it did a year ago or two years ago. How does it handle data? Coding?

People look at it now and see how well it writes poetry, haikus, or something similar. They don't look at it from a replication of human emotional capacity, but rather a human technical/logical capacity.

I just got laid off from my job. I got a severance package and am agreement tied to it. The agreement said consult an attorney for review (I am not at a level that needed that kind of oversight) and my attorney brother said have AI review it. The output from the AI spat out the same concerns about the agreement I would have if I were in a technical role related to my job in terms of concerns about the exit requirements. It wasn't relevant to me specifically, but would be relevant if I had more proprietary aspects of my job. Think about what a computer system would have said 5 years ago relative to what it says today. Extrapolate that to 5 years from now.

My dad just got diagnosed with early stages of Alzheimer's. My mom and I used AI to describe to protocol of the medication a neurologist suggested for his treatment. After an MRI showed a resulting minor stroke from one monitoring MRI to the next and the implications of it without having to wait on a discussion with the neurologist to understand the implications of it. It is useful today to provide expanded understanding they could acquire with hours of googling in a contracted time.

I got diagnosed with rectal cancer in January 2024 and it has helped explain treatments, risks, results and errors on reports from imaging as well as standard protocols/therapies after the fact in line with what the doctor confirmed before I had the chance to discuss it with them. Those are technical, discrete situations that are branching answers to questions with accurate answers, correcting radiologist assessments of scans. Radiologist report said I had a portion of my liver removed, I did not. AI's error, humans do as well.

It's like people looking at the internet in 1998 and saying "what does it actually do to impact society?" And in that form it was "not much" but fast forward 10 years at it become a large portion and ever growing portion of the economy. Everything is impacted by the internet now. Everything will be impacted by AI as it improves over time. I can today use it to expand my abilities to complete tasks, it won't do it flawlessly, but with it I can improve my own skills by asking it for help and fixing where it fails.

People underestimate the rate of improvement of technology over time. Five years ago a Tesla would make absolutely stupid decisions in driving scenarios and would scare the **** out of an average person. Today it drives me everywhere, point to point with extremely rare. Basically always navigational corrections and not safety issues. It's very early.

ETA: All of the medical information was later validated by my oncologist, colorectal surgeon, dermatologist (had maculopapular eruption from chemo treatments, easily the second worst consequence of cancer treatment behind radiation burns/digestive issues from lower GI radiation), and neurologist (good friend is a high level neurologist). I wouldn't rely solely on AI yet, but the accuracy of information has been within reasonable alignment of their interpretations of scans/symptoms verified by doctors.

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So far I am using it to increase productivity by automating repetitive tasks and increasing creativity, communication, and employee engagement/development. Also using it to decrease my rate of making mistakes from 1-2 a year to non-existent (so far).

I've also used it to enhance my options trading, specifically selling 30-40 DTE covered calls and balancing the Greeks to roll at the best possible time. About to turn it loose on the family budget, but I'm not sure I want my wife to know how much I'm spending on my M3 and 4Runner

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Do you think it does a good job of this?

I ask because I see AI generated communication and creative writing on a daily basis and it's always dog *****

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Back to my point, it all sounds exactly the same. AI consistently uses the same overall sentence structure and organization. I can immediately point it out every time if it uses its default structure. I think it's great for technical writing (eg job description) and tweaking your own comms for clean up and conciseness and have used it for such.

But it stands out like a sore thumb for these current event, political, creative, making a declarative point type of posts you see on social media or LinkedIn. Immediate turn off for me.

That's a tough run. Sorry you are going through all of that.

I generally agree with you on AI though. It's going to get better. It's already been a game changer for me in just making spreadsheets better which I like to dabble in. It's allowed me to do things I did not have the skill set to accomplish on my own without spending money on a course. Instead, I spend an hour or two just prompting AI and tweaking the results until I get the outcome I'm looking for. So, it works great for Excel spreadsheets and coding that are rules based and have a defined path to follow.

I also used it for healthcare recently too though and it was highly helpful. This doesn't sound like a big deal, but I used it to build me a pain medication schedule based on my diet and activity post surgery last month. And then I just tweaked it as needed as I progressed through recovery. I knew the parameters I needed to stay in based on doctor's rules but the doc doesn't always give you a solid plan to follow.

It still has huge issues when you are using it for basic internet search because it combs the web and will pull back whatever it finds. No rules there at all - just an information spigot.

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So far I am using it to increase productivity by automating repetitive tasks and increasing creativity, communication, and employee engagement/development. Also using it to decrease my rate of making mistakes from 1-2 a year to non-existent (so far).

I've also used it to enhance my options trading, specifically selling 30-40 DTE covered calls and balancing the Greeks to roll at the best possible time. About to turn it loose on the family budget, but I'm not sure I want my wife to know how much I'm spending on my M3 and 4Runner

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Do you think it does a good job of this?

I ask because I see AI generated communication and creative writing on a daily basis and it's always dog *****

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I do, and that's why I use it. I don't usually implement tools that I think do a bad job.

I think the biggest issue with AI is in its marketing. There are too many lay-persons who seem to think it should be like talking to a god. We are still years away from that form of AI.

It's simply a tool you have to learn to use, just like anything. It's uses can be as simple or as involved as learning a program like Excel. Sure, most people just make basic tables. But those who truly know how to use Excel can do some absolutely amazing things with it.

Right now, I feel like i'm listening to people who make small tables in excel complaining it's not that useful, whereas there are a couple on this thread who are making pivot tables and creating macros to solve all kinds of business issues.

The issue isn't Excel, it's the end-user.