So the AI vendors are trying to sell something that has no apparent benefit to the company and comes at an increased cost that may increase more in the future, that also takes three times more money to properly deploy, and even then nobody knows if it will do anything.
It’s a nice scam, and I appreciate them laying it out so simply. But what are the AI vendors going to do? They can’t actually write contracts that promise things, not if their company plans to be around in 5 years, so the best they can do is set up shell companies or try to use the current hype as an excuse to get quick sales so they can make their Buck before everyone realizes it’s snake oil.
The problem is, this is a mainstream article explaining how it’s snake oil, so almost everyone realizes it by now. Maybe you can get the company president to authorize a purchase because he gets some indirect kickback from his friend’s AI company, but that’s the same kind of dirt we’ve always had in society.
So the AI vendors are trying to sell something that has no apparent benefit to the company and comes at an increased cost that may increase more in the future, that also takes three times more money to properly deploy, and even then nobody knows if it will do anything.
It’s a nice scam, and I appreciate them laying it out so simply. But what are the AI vendors going to do? They can’t actually write contracts that promise things, not if their company plans to be around in 5 years, so the best they can do is set up shell companies or try to use the current hype as an excuse to get quick sales so they can make their Buck before everyone realizes it’s snake oil.
The problem is, this is a mainstream article explaining how it’s snake oil, so almost everyone realizes it by now. Maybe you can get the company president to authorize a purchase because he gets some indirect kickback from his friend’s AI company, but that’s the same kind of dirt we’ve always had in society.