So let me get this straight, the digital dream team barely managed to show up, cost a fortune, and still needed a coffee break after every task? Sounds… like a Wednesday to me.
And Cluely? A tool that helps you cheat during interviews and occasionally hallucinates? Honestly, I’ve met interns who operate on those same principles.
Also, I am a unicorn, David lol
Someone called me a unicorn last week, and I was like WTAF.
😂🤣😂🤣 I just had a chat with the Substack "customer service" Ai that impressed me with its ability to almost sound like a human but got stuck in a loop once it ran out of ideas.
So far, I'm batting zero with your 'guess the product' quizzes. 🙄
I find so many instances of poor AI support For my Canva problems I received the literal same email 18 times out of their 30 emails to me that failed to acknowledge what the real problem was and that I’d actually replied to it multiple times
There’s so many crazy new products that it becomes quite fun finding them
Even when dealing with humans (as far as I can tell), customer service these days seems a poorly done afterthought. Multiple occasions with Apple's determined me to never buy any music, books, or services from them ever again. I'm stuck in their ecosystem with the books and music I "own" so will have to buy a new iPhone eventually, but I'll put it off as long as I can. They're just too big to care about any individual's issues.
Amazon is in my crosshairs now...
I take some tiny comfort that at least my guesses on new products seem to align with most people's even though we turn out to be wrong.
For many, customer service is truly not valued partly because of the “stickiness” of relationships whether banking or software.
Because I’m nuts about music I left Apple, ported my files to Roon (a server I run myself) and buy from smaller better quality music providers including the artists themselves on Bandcamp
Apple’s service in Apple stores is phenomenal. I just have to go to Vancouver to go to one
Indeed, most of what I’ve heard about support from Apple stores is positive. Many companies don’t see service (or user documentation) as adding value, which has always seemed short-sighted to me.
I will credit Apple with letting me keep the music files stored locally and copying them to my old iPod worked fine (while the iPod still worked — the battery no longer holds much charge). I haven’t tried playing them one a different player, but I assume they’re just MP4 files and should work.
You’re the second person recently to recommend Bandcamp. I need to look into that, because then I could drop my Amazon Music subscription. Like you, I’m nuts about music, too.
I’m away from home at the moment but when I get back I’ll post the other 2 services I use to buy music from. I still buy music as i believe in supporting the average musicians who cannot make ut on the small Spotify / streaming payouts
Man, David, you were on fire this week. So now, in addition to chasing fake jobs, people are getting beat out by fake applicants trying to get access for cyber attacks. Where does it end?
Not sure where it ends. That’s why I grabbing ones that seem important and make fun of them
But some stories - the false cases in legal trials - have become commonplace now.
A conservative estimate is that AI’s make mistakes 30% of the time That is not good enough for widespread usage. Would we install a payroll system that got 30% of the payments wrong?
I tried Perplexity for the first time the other day—just the free version, so I can’t speak to the Pro/Deep version. But I was honestly a little disappointed.
The results felt pretty surface-level, and the sources weren’t great. One linked to a blog, and another pointed to an article that itself was referencing data from elsewhere. That’s not a source. That’s a source of a source, and that’s where credibility breaks down.
If people start treating this as research, we’re in trouble. You still have to vet your sources and go to the originals.
I use Perplexity many times per day. It has replaced all search usage for short and long fact look ups, finding images, getting recipes, tech support, product review and comparison, thesaurus, and so on
It - like almost all AI products that I’ve used for deeper research - is very comprehensive, but doesn’t seem to really understand real issues and has simplistic conclusions. The only one I’ve experimented with that is better is Manus
Sources were added for any AI product after the fact and often do not make any sense at all. But it is an important part of post-SEOworld as to how they get in there.
Are you using the paid version of perplexity? And the research it brings up - is it deeper than surface level blog articles? Does it bring up things like Gallup poll, HBR, McKinsey and other peer reviewed research articles?
I have used the paid version of Perplexity but not right now. All of the use cases I cited don’t require Gallup, HBR, McKinsey, et al. Any deep research I do - currently using Manus - I still don’t need it. McKinsey, Gallup and the ilk occasionally show up but they are not peer reviewed.,
One can be specific in one’s prompt about including certain studies. .or one can ask a question like what does peer reviewed research show about X
lol for the unicorn catch. Thanks for bringing balance to the AI story and some chuckles. I’m reminded of the SaaS / App tech bubble when any half baked application idea could get millions in funding. And the pouf it burst. The real value still survived and changed how we do stuff. Adjustments happen. Keep up the reality check and amusing sarcasm (which always needs some truth to bite).
Thanks Leanne. I really look to burst balloons of hype, over reach and hypocrisy.
Within 2 weeks when I have relaunched my Entrepreneur offering I will gave a serious series on AI and the consulting industry, where I think there gas been overreach and hype.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
So let me get this straight, the digital dream team barely managed to show up, cost a fortune, and still needed a coffee break after every task? Sounds… like a Wednesday to me.
And Cluely? A tool that helps you cheat during interviews and occasionally hallucinates? Honestly, I’ve met interns who operate on those same principles.
Also, I am a unicorn, David lol
Someone called me a unicorn last week, and I was like WTAF.
Happy Tuesday!
Take the unicorn comment as a compliment. Means you have a billion dollar valuation. Now if you can only turn it into cash you are good to go.
I should take some time to invent a fake interview based on the interviewee saying all the wrong things from the AI tool
Thanks for reading. Off for a few days. Oh the horrible life of the retired
LOL
Enjoy your time off David :)
Sincerely,
Neela (The unicorn)
😂🤣😂🤣 I just had a chat with the Substack "customer service" Ai that impressed me with its ability to almost sound like a human but got stuck in a loop once it ran out of ideas.
So far, I'm batting zero with your 'guess the product' quizzes. 🙄
I find so many instances of poor AI support For my Canva problems I received the literal same email 18 times out of their 30 emails to me that failed to acknowledge what the real problem was and that I’d actually replied to it multiple times
There’s so many crazy new products that it becomes quite fun finding them
Even when dealing with humans (as far as I can tell), customer service these days seems a poorly done afterthought. Multiple occasions with Apple's determined me to never buy any music, books, or services from them ever again. I'm stuck in their ecosystem with the books and music I "own" so will have to buy a new iPhone eventually, but I'll put it off as long as I can. They're just too big to care about any individual's issues.
Amazon is in my crosshairs now...
I take some tiny comfort that at least my guesses on new products seem to align with most people's even though we turn out to be wrong.
For many, customer service is truly not valued partly because of the “stickiness” of relationships whether banking or software.
Because I’m nuts about music I left Apple, ported my files to Roon (a server I run myself) and buy from smaller better quality music providers including the artists themselves on Bandcamp
Apple’s service in Apple stores is phenomenal. I just have to go to Vancouver to go to one
Indeed, most of what I’ve heard about support from Apple stores is positive. Many companies don’t see service (or user documentation) as adding value, which has always seemed short-sighted to me.
I will credit Apple with letting me keep the music files stored locally and copying them to my old iPod worked fine (while the iPod still worked — the battery no longer holds much charge). I haven’t tried playing them one a different player, but I assume they’re just MP4 files and should work.
You’re the second person recently to recommend Bandcamp. I need to look into that, because then I could drop my Amazon Music subscription. Like you, I’m nuts about music, too.
I’m away from home at the moment but when I get back I’ll post the other 2 services I use to buy music from. I still buy music as i believe in supporting the average musicians who cannot make ut on the small Spotify / streaming payouts
Man, David, you were on fire this week. So now, in addition to chasing fake jobs, people are getting beat out by fake applicants trying to get access for cyber attacks. Where does it end?
Not sure where it ends. That’s why I grabbing ones that seem important and make fun of them
But some stories - the false cases in legal trials - have become commonplace now.
A conservative estimate is that AI’s make mistakes 30% of the time That is not good enough for widespread usage. Would we install a payroll system that got 30% of the payments wrong?
I tried Perplexity for the first time the other day—just the free version, so I can’t speak to the Pro/Deep version. But I was honestly a little disappointed.
The results felt pretty surface-level, and the sources weren’t great. One linked to a blog, and another pointed to an article that itself was referencing data from elsewhere. That’s not a source. That’s a source of a source, and that’s where credibility breaks down.
If people start treating this as research, we’re in trouble. You still have to vet your sources and go to the originals.
I use Perplexity many times per day. It has replaced all search usage for short and long fact look ups, finding images, getting recipes, tech support, product review and comparison, thesaurus, and so on
It - like almost all AI products that I’ve used for deeper research - is very comprehensive, but doesn’t seem to really understand real issues and has simplistic conclusions. The only one I’ve experimented with that is better is Manus
Sources were added for any AI product after the fact and often do not make any sense at all. But it is an important part of post-SEOworld as to how they get in there.
Are you using the paid version of perplexity? And the research it brings up - is it deeper than surface level blog articles? Does it bring up things like Gallup poll, HBR, McKinsey and other peer reviewed research articles?
I have used the paid version of Perplexity but not right now. All of the use cases I cited don’t require Gallup, HBR, McKinsey, et al. Any deep research I do - currently using Manus - I still don’t need it. McKinsey, Gallup and the ilk occasionally show up but they are not peer reviewed.,
One can be specific in one’s prompt about including certain studies. .or one can ask a question like what does peer reviewed research show about X
lol for the unicorn catch. Thanks for bringing balance to the AI story and some chuckles. I’m reminded of the SaaS / App tech bubble when any half baked application idea could get millions in funding. And the pouf it burst. The real value still survived and changed how we do stuff. Adjustments happen. Keep up the reality check and amusing sarcasm (which always needs some truth to bite).
Thanks Leanne. I really look to burst balloons of hype, over reach and hypocrisy.
Within 2 weeks when I have relaunched my Entrepreneur offering I will gave a serious series on AI and the consulting industry, where I think there gas been overreach and hype.