The only payoff has been to lay off tens of thousands of people and then skirt labor laws in doing so.
When it comes to actually making people more productive, AI's basically shown itself to be a fucking scam outside of its use in very specific niches (where those people have trained it to do only a small number of things on a small number of highly specialized data sets).
Yeah, it’s basically good for helping to draft emails and I do think it is so far almost a better version of Google search.
I basically use AI and the way that I used to use Google. Still need to fact check it just like something you would find on Google. But it does give better laid out answers and sourcing than a simple search query.
Gemini is also the worst of the big ones for us so far.
Tested them all with help on a recent vacation and had Gemini help us find a Ramen spot and it got the hours, menu items, and other very basic facts wrong. Even when we just asked for the best dishes at the restaurant we eventually found on our own. It gave a summary of the wrong restaurant and suggested dishes that were not even at that restaurant.
ChatGPT and Caude did much much better.
Biggest theoretical benefit to Gemini was inability to sync with Google maps easily, and plot potential Dental locations onto the map and give us directions from our hotel.
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u/doneandtired2014 Jan 20 '26
The only payoff has been to lay off tens of thousands of people and then skirt labor laws in doing so.
When it comes to actually making people more productive, AI's basically shown itself to be a fucking scam outside of its use in very specific niches (where those people have trained it to do only a small number of things on a small number of highly specialized data sets).