ChatGPT - This is pretty awesome :)

[Carsten]

If you are into that deeply, I'd look into going local. Story was that pro is going to cost $200/month.
I started tinkering with windsurf and they just jacked up their price by $5 and cut their tokens by half.

I use chatGPT more or less similar to you but I use it for questions, research, and lots of minor things.
Because I am using for a diversity of things, I catch being dumb so much I go back to google for searches.

But if you are using it in a focused fashion like that, then yeah! I can see how it is beneficial today.

Since you are data heavy, you should look at what Amazon is doing. They just had a big show and were pushing AI hard. Data lakes and icebergs are going to be more and more common.

 

[joe.pistell]

RB, In my AI use (2+ hrs a day in AI), AI doesn't do math well.

AI haters don't comprehend that AI is a machine that will assist its designers to conquer its weaknesses. IOW, this months weakness is gone next month. As time passes, the role that humans make in AI's improvements will become smaller and smaller as AI itself, improves itself. (google singularity)

GPT4o ---> GPTo1 = 8 months

AIME math problems start relatively easy and get harder, with 25 questions to complete in 75 minutes.

Here are 3 Math question from easy to hard
(GPTo1 got 83% right.)




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Haters, you gotta wake up. AI is to our world as is the transistor was to our past... EXCEPT AI is growing at light speed.

 

[joe.pistell]

AI is a language based model and computer coding is a wonderful fit for AI.
My son is a dev in our startup (AutoMagicLabs.ai). AI helps him troubleshoot and create so much it's become an anchor in his work flow.

GPT4o ---> GPTo1 = 8 months

Codeforces-style competitive programming problems. Codeforces problems usually require a mix of algorithmic thinking, coding efficiency, and correctness under time constraints.

Again, is only 8 months, GPTo1 has become a highly ranked coder.

GPTo1 introduced 'reasoning' into AI where it takes a problem and, like a human, it breaks apart the task into parts and goes over it again and again until it gets it right.

 

[joe.pistell]

I’ve been on this planet for quite a while; long-time DR trolls know me as an innovative old man . For those close to me, I’ve been pounding the table about the change that’s coming to us all, which will be profound—and fast.

Haters, beware defending your turf while the evidence around you shifts. At this hour, you are right...

P.S. I’m telling my 40-year-old son, who’s a developer, to look into the trades (they’ll make more money than doctors).

 

[Jon Singo]

P.S. I’m telling my 40-year-old son, who’s a developer, to look into the trades (they’ll make more money than doctors).

Do you think this is because doctors are going to be replaced with AI and cobot assistants or because demand for trades will outpace doctors?

I agree with you on the potential impact of AI but I'm not sure how quickly it will be adopted. There are still large portions of the workforce who can't use Google properly. Are those people out of jobs or retain their roles and still not be able to use the tools available to them?

 

[BillKVMotorCo]

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[joe.pistell]

Do you think this is because doctors are going to be replaced with AI and cobot assistants or because demand for trades will outpace doctors?

I agree with you on the potential impact of AI but I'm not sure how quickly it will be adopted. There are still large portions of the workforce who can't use Google properly. Are those people out of jobs or retain their roles and still not be able to use the tools available to them?

JS, my vision docs, 8 mo ago.

• When you combine AI+CRM what is created are AI personal assistants. AI assistants will begin taking over basic tasks, then it will quickly evolve taking over more complex tasks.
• Your store will have a Digital Personal Assistant (DPA) for nearly every employee in the store.
  • Nearly every employee will have their DPA.
  • Sales rep's DPA will assist them in digital workflow (product knowledge, lead management, goal setting and feedback, paper work, compliance, etc).
  • Techs will have DPAs making them smarter, faster and , their managers will have DPAs
• Store leaders will have DPAs, all monitoring the DPAs of the entire staff. This will be called an "agent swarm". All DPAs assisting each other in communicating, making the operation flow faster, smarter.
  
  • Example: Your the GSM your DPA knows 4 deliveries are coming at 4pm and ETA is unknown. Your DPA pings the 2 techs for updates. 1 is on time, the other is delayed 30-60 mins. THe GSM's DPA pings the reps DPA to alert the the rep of the delay. The reps DPA gets the cause of hte delay and offers word tracks.

Look at $CRM's (SalesForce) most 10q
"Agentforce, our complete AI system for enterprises built into the Salesforce Platform, is at the heart of a groundbreaking transformation. The rise of autonomous AI agents is revolutionizing global labor, reshaping how industries operate and scale. With Agentforce, we're not just witnessing the future—we're leading it, unleashing a new era of digital labor for every business and every industry."

It's coming.

 

[BillKVMotorCo]

JS, my vision docs, 8 mo ago.

• When you combine AI+CRM what is created are AI personal assistants. AI assistants will begin taking over basic tasks, then it will quickly evolve taking over more complex tasks.
• Your store will have a Digital Personal Assistant (DPA) for nearly every employee in the store.
  • Nearly every employee will have their DPA.
  • Sales rep's DPA will assist them in digital workflow (product knowledge, lead management, goal setting and feedback, paper work, compliance, etc).
  • Techs will have DPAs making them smarter, faster and , their managers will have DPAs
• Store leaders will have DPAs, all monitoring the DPAs of the entire staff. This will be called an "agent swarm". All DPAs assisting each other in communicating, making the operation flow faster, smarter.
  
  • Example: Your the GSM your DPA knows 4 deliveries are coming at 4pm and ETA is unknown. Your DPA pings the 2 techs for updates. 1 is on time, the other is delayed 30-60 mins. THe GSM's DPA pings the reps DPA to alert the the rep of the delay. The reps DPA gets the cause of hte delay and offers word tracks.

Look at $CRM's (SalesForce) most 10q
"Agentforce, our complete AI system for enterprises built into the Salesforce Platform, is at the heart of a groundbreaking transformation. The rise of autonomous AI agents is revolutionizing global labor, reshaping how industries operate and scale. With Agentforce, we're not just witnessing the future—we're leading it, unleashing a new era of digital labor for every business and every industry."

It's coming.

You both know I'm a believer.

 

[Jon Singo]

JS, my vision docs, 8 mo ago.

• When you combine AI+CRM what is created are AI personal assistants. AI assistants will begin taking over basic tasks, then it will quickly evolve taking over more complex tasks.
• Your store will have a Digital Personal Assistant (DPA) for nearly every employee in the store.
  • Nearly every employee will have their DPA.
  • Sales rep's DPA will assist them in digital workflow (product knowledge, lead management, goal setting and feedback, paper work, compliance, etc).
  • Techs will have DPAs making them smarter, faster and , their managers will have DPAs
• Store leaders will have DPAs, all monitoring the DPAs of the entire staff. This will be called an "agent swarm". All DPAs assisting each other in communicating, making the operation flow faster, smarter.
  
  • Example: Your the GSM your DPA knows 4 deliveries are coming at 4pm and ETA is unknown. Your DPA pings the 2 techs for updates. 1 is on time, the other is delayed 30-60 mins. THe GSM's DPA pings the reps DPA to alert the the rep of the delay. The reps DPA gets the cause of hte delay and offers word tracks.

Look at $CRM's (SalesForce) most 10q
"Agentforce, our complete AI system for enterprises built into the Salesforce Platform, is at the heart of a groundbreaking transformation. The rise of autonomous AI agents is revolutionizing global labor, reshaping how industries operate and scale. With Agentforce, we're not just witnessing the future—we're leading it, unleashing a new era of digital labor for every business and every industry."

It's coming.

Very excited for the DPA integrations. Love me some efficiency!

I've got my eye on AR as well, particularly useful in automotive repair. Imagine being able to turn a D tech into an A tech with AR assistance. An entire OEM repair guide catalog through the lenses of shop goggles.

 

[Carsten]

Here's what senior enterprise devs are saying about AI coding.
The code you get is about an experienced junior.
The tools are can't code you out of the corner unless you know what the problem is.
It cuts down on boiler plate code by a lot.
Access to the full code base is still very limited.

is it useful? Of course!
Can it provide new ideas? Yes!
Can it help you solve an issue that you don't know about? How would you know the answer is correct?

As for a dealer, I think Jon Singo is seeing a great parallel between devs and techs. Hook up to the OBD reader, while you try to track down that 1 corroded connection. Help trouble shoot that misfire. Provide check lists on what to check to solve the issue. But the same expereince is going to come up as senior devs are noticing, it's not ready yet. Close, oh so close.

We still need senior techs with lots of real world experience to solve some issue.

As a DPA?
yeah, I see it being super helpful but will it solve what a CRM couldn't do which was supposed to help what paper couldn't do?

I'm sounding like a nay sayer, but I am buying into Ai. I'm, also, old enough to not buy the cool aid though.

What is Ai really?
Artifical Intelligence? I'm going to say, no it is not.
I see more as a great search engine that can pattern match better than google. Data is store as vectors (data base) and a very advanced elastic search goes over it.
The conversation pieces you noticed are more like a massive database on how to answer. Right now chatGPT is very pandering and will not touch sensitive social issues. The data is being regulated and censored. The next step will be sales items will be regualted to who pays to advertise in that data so hello google rankings all over again.

social issue it refuses to answer: ask it about hot topic race issues.

What will you be seeing more and more of?
Soemthing called Data Lakes. These are like various data storage pooled together. It's data hording and we will see more and more of data being stored and new terminology as to how it's stored and accessed.