I can’t say they’ve been a deluge but they’ve certainly been a constant “drip, drip, drip”. Articles about the weaknesses of generative artificial intelligence from a business perspective that is. I’ve saved at least twenty articles over the last two weeks on just that subject.
There’s no doubt that the Magnificent Seven technology companies are using AI as an opportunity to cut their development head count. The total appears to be around 50,000 so far this year and around 100,000 last year. The question that’s not being answered is how they’ll make money from gAI (other than be reducing head count)?
IMO that’s particularly true of Google. Using AI to summarize search results has resulted in a dramatic decline in “click-throughs”. There are reports that “click-throughs” have declined by as much as 40%. For Google that’s the rough equivalent of sawing off the branch you’re sitting on.
In the mean time they’re spending enormous sums on AI.
Keep in mind that it took Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon a decade or more before they figured out workable business models.
