If you want to remain skeptical about “artificial intelligence” and the various misleading technologies, you probably shouldn't chat with Greg Dorfman during your AI presentation.
“It's a real tool and I hope it's a better tool,” Dorfman told me in uncertain terms. “It's become a routine for me.”
Dorfman's enthusiasm for AI is weighing in, as he is neither a man in software nor someone trying to put human stock in chicken. He is the general manager of Concord's budget blinds, a mid-sized business with $3 million annual sales and 12 employees, working with customers to design and sell different types of window coverings, dispatching and installing field crews.
It's kind of business to expect your fax number to appear on your business card, not on your AI.
Dorfman said he began experimenting with technology around the beginning of the year after his wife began using it at home. He started off with simple ChatGpt using ChatGpt, including turning his ideas into an agenda for morning staff meetings, but quickly raised the ladder of complexity.
His latest use is an executive coaching module that helps determine the key points of each job in the business, and says it will generate employee metrics.
“It allows me to spend time on work Above Not business in His goal is how he places it. His goal is to train a specific AI agent or self-contained unit to assist or handle new customers when they ask for their initial consultation.
I met Dorfman at a meeting hosted by AI's Concord Area Chamber of Commerce for Small and Medium Enterprises. The presenter was Ryan Robinson, chief service officer at Mainstay, a company that sells AI tools and training to individuals and businesses.
Robinson, you guessed, is Gunho about technology. He argued that AI modules for businesses, normally known as agents, are already equivalent to human internships. You need to hold their hands and triple check their work, but good ones help.
Soon, he said they would be equivalent to employees who can get the job done and do well with minimal surveillance. And ultimately, they become experts: give them goals, they create the work they need to get there, and do it over and over, even interacting with other agents and expanding the scope of their work as long as you want.
At that point, he said, technology will be able to reimagined business practices, as the adoption of electricity a century ago allows for reimagining of manufacturing processes. He then said the sky was at its limit.
As I first showed, I am skeptical of large models and other types of machine learning that will get “artificial intelligence” branding. I'm an old man who can calm down like normal or even disappear completely before so much technology explodes through the cycle of hype.
My guess is that what's worth is that AI is more useful than NFT, but less important than HTTP. But many smart and experienced people disagree.
Unlike the hyped technology of the past, there is good reason to believe that AI, like the Internet, has bold consequences for business, governance, and everyday life. In that case, you'll become a fool without throwing all the money and time with the technology available, as otherwise you'll be left in the dust.
perhaps. However, in the meantime, the industry has many drawbacks.
It could overturn our weak efforts to reduce toxicity on electric grids, give businesses crackdowns and excuses for just firefighters, larder all software with annoying pop-ups, ask them to use new AI, and create an investment bubble that already covers Trump's economy.
So that's not good. Is it worth it? You can start deferring it with AI before it gets out of control, or you can pass it to the room as much as you can.
I've noticed that there's nothing more than finishing a column with “Leave Time,” but I think this is when time actually says.
Note: The writing in this column does not use any large language models. Honesty.
