Good tools do not need to be forced on people

At the end of last month, a story had started going around that Microsoft thinks “AI is no longer optional” with reports that your A.I. usage may affect your evaluation by your manager.

I’m not going to disagree that there is not any value in A.I. tools. I would argue the cost and accuracy are not good enough for it to be anything more than a research project that needs to be refined before it is ready for real-world use.

Many other companies would disagree with that and are charging forward fully with A.I.

I guess the only thing I would say about A.I. (aside from it’s an ambiguous term that means many things and what people are mostly talking about are LLMs) is that if your software was useful or great, then you wouldn’t need to force it on people.

Many big A.I. proponents are that they just want to push it on people and say you have no choice. It is the future. Ignoring the obvious monetary benefit for pushing that agenda, if they believe that is true, just get on with the work of improving it. People will come to it if it provides real value.