I’m used to seeing articles about AI being used for either highly scientific uses or for generating semi-entertaining nonsense. For a personal business involving managing appointments, documenting meetings, tracking payments etc, can AI help with any of that? Other things include undertaking CPD training, occasional advertising as well as maintaining a website from time-to-time.

The people I know who don’t think AI has any use for them belong in this category and work in the area of mental health, yoga teaching / training, nursing and massage therapy.

    • Clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      My company uses an LLM to summarize a report. Basically give it all the data and tell it what normal looks like so it can write stuff like “26,000 users this month, a minor decrease from last month. This is not an issue as it is within normal bounds.”

      I don’t see the point, but management felt we had to put AI in SOMETHING so other companies don’t have a marketing advantage.

      We’ve been working on anomaly detection for a while with Machine Learning, which is really more impressive but much harder.

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      AI right now is in that phase where we find out how to improve it and where to use it. It will be useful somewhere in the next 5 years, but not now. And I don’t even know if it will ever be useful in finance. We’ll see. Now is not the time.

      The only reason to use it rn is if you’re a scientist or an enthusiast. You are neither I’d assume.