Comment by hn_throwaway_99
2 hours ago
> personally the only real use-case for AI that I've seen is code generation or automated sales or scam calls.
That seems like a giant paucity of imagination. I can easily name a lot of areas where AI is already having a large impact and it's not hard to imagine the impact growing:
1. Customer service. Yes, we all like to laugh at the silly chatbot mistakes, linked list reversals and Instagram oopsies, but a lot of companies are putting a lot of effort (and spend) into AI for customer service.
2. The legal profession is already spending a lot on AI, and it will only grow. Again, we all like to read about hallucinated case citations, but those are solvable problems (honestly I felt they were more human problems than tech problems to begin with) and there are so many areas in research and document summarization that AI is really good at.
3. Radiology. There are lots of arguments over whether AI will "replace radiologists", but that's besides the point. The largest radiology groups in the country already use AI software to check for specific missed diagnoses, and the expected spend on AI will grow, a lot.
4. Enterprise knowledge management. Services like Glean are popular and growing.
I can easily go on.
I would argue that all 4 of these that you have mentioned can be handled with relatively small models very well.
The real question is what situations are the flagship, larger models useful in and will that produce enough demand.