[POLL]: Will AI Make A Big Difference In Your Biz?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been part of some small businesses for over a year now. And we wanted to check to see if you're using it and if so, how it has helped your productivity and/or growth.
We also want you to look into the future and speculate about how AI might impact your business a year from now.
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Comments (11-20)
Not interested at the present time, but open minded as it develops and if proves valuable and business effective, willing to incorporate.
I have been paying monthly for this service and want to cancel, do not see how I can do this. It provides no benefit except a monthly payment, and if you advertise you have another charge. Please tell me how I cancell. thanks Anne
A potential employee: shows initiative, problem solver, team player.
Any applicants relying on A.I. instead of their: skills, degree{s}, objective{s}. Equals high turnovers; therefore removing themselves as potential assets to any company.
It's imperative that {not just thinkers} thinkers/doers are hired, instead of granting incompetence { A. I. as a crutch }.
It's kind of like a really good research assistant, which has to be fact-checked, just in case. Lol
I lost a steady contract I've had since 2010 thanks to AI. I know AI can't do what I do, but since everyone seems to be jumping on the AI bandwagon, it's no good complaining about it. I'd be willing to bet it won't be 5 years before we start hearing horror stories about what AI has done to our world, but thanks to my lost contract, I can't afford to. The really amusing thing is how many jobs are being posted for AI writers. And I am really glad to be out of higher ed., since now students no longer have to buy fake papers from a paper mill--they just ask their AI app to write it. And people are still wondering how it is that so many college graduates are still illiterate. Wake up and smell the coffee...
I've been using AI to rewrite content on my website to improve SEO.
So far, Deepai.org is the best AI that I've found for Quality Professionals. It's programmed to be knowledgeable of ISO 9001, AS9100, ISO 17025, Apollo Root Cause Analysis, TRIZ, etc.
HOWEVER, like ChatGPT it cannot be blindly trusted. When using it for research, I've identified multiple instances where it provided incorrect information (e.g., citing sources that don't exist). I've asked it simple questions and it has inserted a "woke" diatribe with its response. And it is politically biased toward socialism and the Democrat Party to the point of outright lying.
That being said, we limit its use to simply assisting in re-phrasing business letters, marketing materials (e.g., checking for grammar and phrasing) and some Cause and Effect Analysis.
So AI is having a minimal impact on my business.
There will always be pros and cons with new tech.
I have used AI to create commercials, and for graphics promoting my business and my website- ILuvOldies.com.
At first this seemed like something better than Linkedin. But just like them, you get nothing for free. And at $50/month, I almost fell out of my chair. I've also never gotten any referrals so both are pretty much useless to me.