What’s the most expensive thing one can do with AI and how do we do it on a mass scale to one company at at time?
I know a company that burned $100k in tokens after they they let like 50 worker bees using general AI for OCR, simply converting images and PDFs to text.
They didn’t bother to create a skill, or teach the AI how to reuse a shared script so every request resulted in it writing a new python project, pulling libraries, using a frontier model rather than offloading a dumb one etc.
Basically find a business process that happens often and let em at it inefficiently, it’ll happily chew through the budget.
Thats pretty much what people freaked out about llms doing at my work and all they use it for. I’m here like…we have had OCR for over 20 years.
People are duuumb.
There has been some serious leaps in terms of quality. It couldn’t read human writing or half the fonts for that matter like 5 years ago, let alone 20.
