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Top Economist Finds That AI Has Provided “Zero Financial Payoff” to Companies Outside Tech: "There are still no signs of AI boosting productivity growth." (futurism.com)
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[–] -3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Productivity isn't where most businesses are going to strike pay dirt. They're going to get their value in processing information and in prototyping ideas/products/solutions before actually physically making them.

So the article may be absolutely true and completely missing the point.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 week ago

    *having an illusion of information processing and producing tons of shitty prototypes. Yeah, sure, get their value, right

    that's more about how most businesses use llms, less about what they are actually good/bad at

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago*

    I'm with you on two key points:

    1. Prototyping is amazing, and provides real and dramatic benefits.
    2. Generative AI is an amazing protyping tool.

    But the value proposition falls to pieces if we compare the costs and impacts of LLM prototypes and paper prototypes.

    Before LLMs were invented, there waa strong data showing that paper prototypes are insanely compelling, even when compared with easy cheap rapid prototyping software.

    LLM prototypes just aren't a pragmatic option. (By the data, so far.)

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