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Uhh. Just chiming in here as someone that does business to business IT support.... Most of the NPC office workers are almost demanding access to "AI" stuff.
I'm not saying this will turn out well, in fact, I think it will probably end poorly, but I'm not on charge around here. There's a nontrivial outcry for "AI" tools in business.
There's profit happening with it right now. Maybe not enough to offset costs yet, but there's a market for these things in the mindless office drone space.
To be absolutely clear, I think it's an idiotic thing to have/use, especially for any work in IT, but here we are. I have middle managers quoting chat GPT as if it's proof that what they want, can be done. I've been forwarded complete instructions to use fictional control panels and fictional controls to do a thing, when it's not possible for that thing to be done.
"AI" is a corporate yes-man in the worst ways possible. Not only are they agreeing that something can be done, even if it's not possible, but it's providing real enough looking directions that it seems like what it's proposing can be done, is actually possible and reasonable. I once asked copilot how to drive to the moon and it told me I'd run out of gas. While I would definitely run out of gas trying to get to the moon by car, when I'm done trying and I've run out of gas, I wouldn't be any closer to the moon than I usually am.
The thing is an idiot on wheels at the best of times, and a blatant liar the rest of the time. I don't know how people can justify using it in business when a mistake can lead to legal action, and possibly a very large settlement. It's short sighted and it's not worth the time nor effort involved in the whole endeavor.
For the most part AI is the best OCR ever designed. And if used for that it really is great. Most AI agents you see our there are mostly just used for that: ocr.
It's also nice-ish to start writing simple programs, if you know how it works it sets you more or less in the right path in a few prompts. That head start can be nice.
It also helps in Excel with charting.
It also is helpful for acquiring knowledge. AS LONG AS YOU CHECK THE LINKED SOURCES.
If you don't you will crash and burn. Not eventually but quick.
So yes, AI does have uses and Yes, it will cost some people their jobs, especially in knowledge Industries and IT.
But then again, that's a tale as old as time. Stuff changes.
(AI) datacenters will not go away. Desktop processing will vanish. And then, 15 years from now, someone gets a great idea and starts selling Personal AI computers. And this cycle will redo from start.
Machine learning for OCR makes a ton of sense. Human writing is highly dynamic, especially handwriting. It makes sense that OCR would benefit from a trained model for recognising words.