Imagine having tech employees beg their employers for a work computer. That’s basically what this article is suggesting.
I see a big silver lining on this cloud though: unlike a work computer, apparently AI subscriptions are not self-evidently worth having:
“It is starting to happen,” Tunguz told me, as employee use of AI increasingly contributes to total cash burn. “It is a consideration for the Office of the CFO.”
1981 was the year of the IBM PC, which was produced for 6 years and became a staple in the business world. Third-party software became widely available within a year. They were famous for the quality of the documentation.
Basically the opposite is true for AI’s flagship LLMs, for every one of rise things. The creators are unable to make money, investors are getting nervous, their functionality is poorly explained to businesses, the list goes on.
the first 10+ years of PCs and clones on the market, many were sitting idle on workers’ desks…
No. Literally from Wikipedia: “Third-party software support grew extremely quickly, and within a year the PC platform was supplied with a vast array of titles for any conceivable purpose.”
Not a million chatbots with flaky guardrails and dubious value, getting pushed on random people. The value of a PC program was explicit and understandable.
IBM marketed thier PCs very effectively and launched with a Billion dollar boom, but then lost market share and ultimately lost their ability to sell PCs…
… Because the PC Compatible emerged? Yeah I know. That’s evidence of success.
Moving goalposts to a different metaphor (the dot-com bubble) makes me think you realized your first attempt at a metaphor sucked
The Wikipedia article is yours to peruse and fix if you think it’s wrong. It has examples. I just quoted something that was particularly funny given your insistence that AI is literally the PC and clones.
Imagine having tech employees beg their employers for a work computer. That’s basically what this article is suggesting.
I see a big silver lining on this cloud though: unlike a work computer, apparently AI subscriptions are not self-evidently worth having:
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1981 was the year of the IBM PC, which was produced for 6 years and became a staple in the business world. Third-party software became widely available within a year. They were famous for the quality of the documentation.
Basically the opposite is true for AI’s flagship LLMs, for every one of rise things. The creators are unable to make money, investors are getting nervous, their functionality is poorly explained to businesses, the list goes on.
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No. Literally from Wikipedia: “Third-party software support grew extremely quickly, and within a year the PC platform was supplied with a vast array of titles for any conceivable purpose.”
Not a million chatbots with flaky guardrails and dubious value, getting pushed on random people. The value of a PC program was explicit and understandable.
… Because the PC Compatible emerged? Yeah I know. That’s evidence of success.
Moving goalposts to a different metaphor (the dot-com bubble) makes me think you realized your first attempt at a metaphor sucked
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The Wikipedia article is yours to peruse and fix if you think it’s wrong. It has examples. I just quoted something that was particularly funny given your insistence that AI is literally the PC and clones.
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