You shoved it in my face now

I have found one use for it: getting information from behind login/paywalls.

It still feels gross to use AI at all though. It's like putting my hand in toilet water.

The market flooding is a classic silicon valley strategy of free today charge tomorrow except they're over invested in this one financially, in global supply for GPUs, and land with viable power infrastructure.

ChatGPT is quite good and it's not in my face at all, it's just in a bookmark I access when I need it.

Copilot is hot garbage, and it's plastered all over Windows, Edge, and Office.

I haven't tried the Samsung AI, but it won't let me forget it's there.

OP absolutely has a point. The more in your face the AI is, the more garbage it is.

LLMs are fucking useful, but there's not yet a good business model. You can switch to any system at any time, so everyone is trying to forcefeed you their own version of it ro get you hooked. But in the end they're just annoying the hell out of users.

eyup. this is basically the case for everything. if its usefulness is worth its cost and is affordable then it will quickly be taken up by word of mouth or example. This is why companies try to subsidize things until it dominates the market and then raises costs to the point normal folk are like fuck this. it was nice but not worth it anymore.

This is how I feel, especially with companies adding "AI Use" to their performance reviews. If employees found it helpful, they'd use it. Or did you hire complete morons?

I've built several AI tools for my work which do increase productivity. They lean in to what AI is actually good at and improve the speed of getting information, like using AI embeddings to build a quick semantic search, and building MCP tools for agents to look up information in our systems quickly. I've built some AI based tools to automate very expensive tasks that require a ton of manual data curation and review, and it works at the same level as our staff doing it, and it runs in 20 minutes, that's a win.

People actually do use these tools because they save a significant amount of time with very little cost, and everyone gets to do the things they're actually good at.

Now I'm being asked to spearhead building out customer facing AI efforts. I knew this day would come, but yeah the board and investors want it. They really want to be able to tell investors and clients that we're an AI forward company.

I've been planning for this and researching/studying, and all the internal tools I've built have been test runs. I'm not going to force AI on users, but I am going to build tools and systems for the ones who do use AI.