This is where I think AI has the power to really increase productivity. General-purpose AIs are nice, but having one that knows the current status of projects, learns the people you talk to frequently and your tone, and has access to all your company’s internal documentation would
Instead of digging around in Confluence for a document, you just ask the AI. You ask the AI what meetings you have and what they’re about. You ask the AI to write an email to Joe about the contract renewal and it spits one out for you to proofread and send.
It would be like everyone having their own personal secretary, but one that works seamlessly with everyone else’s and never takes a sick day.
… no shit Sherlock
tailored to their corporation’s needs
No these models are out there now. The more specialized, the less likely you need huge computing or graphical power. The corporations have realized bigger isn’t better.
Do I not? People are framing this as a bad thing, and it is, but not the way people think. The smart corporations won’t hoard away the tech to only do what they want with it. The smart companies will use the users as the product and harvest incredible amounts of information. Not only do you get user information, marketing data, human data, you get people to create models for free. Sure they get some use out of it for whatever project, but they might have just cooked up a million dollar idea that they can leverage and steal as well. I think “AI” is going to be a lot less scary when it’s integrated everywhere and user dependence is the biggest problem.
My main issue with using the general chatbot is that it’s an incredibly inefficient way to convey information. For writing tasks I essentially need to type most of the answer first to get reasonable outputs when considering my actual constraints.
More specialized tooling will have these constraints built-in, which will increase productivity.
Even if we have the perfect general chatbot, it’s still a lot of work to concisely describe your requirements to it.
I imagine there will eventually be businesses that aggregate data specifically to sell to LLM businesses. Like photostock but with a bunch of LLM conversational stuff.