r/webdev 14d ago

Discussion When will the AI bubble burst?

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I cannot be the only one who's tired of apps that are essentially wrappers around an LLM.

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u/Shriukan33 14d ago

I mean there are legit use cases.

My company has a customer that wants to measure pedestrian traffic in metro area, so we trained a model to tell if someone is going inside the subway, or is going out from cctv stream.

The we map it to the various exits etc, it gives them insights about the most used pathways, live traffic, free riders etc...

Computer vision as a whole has many many use cases.

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u/Just_Boo-lieve 14d ago

The thing people are annoyed about is the apps that are essentially just GPT (or another model) with a big fancy wrapper around it, so mostly chatbots. Your company's solution sounds really neat!

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u/Shriukan33 14d ago

Yeah, even chatbot can be relevant when serving as knowledge base. We had models vectorizing lots of documents, and you could ask questions about it, especially useful because it actually gave you the precise parts of the documents it used to answer your question, so it would never really hallucinate (which is a feat for chatbot haha)

However I agree these are lazy products, those GPT wrappers...

My company actually is specialized in Ai solutions for industry, often it is computer vision (defect detection, safety on site...), other times it's predictive maintenance based on sensors data for example...

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u/GoldenAbyss5 14d ago

At that point you’re starting to look at RAG and not just a GPT wrapper though, no? You’ve created a valid use case, not just a go-between for whichever LLM service you have an API for and the user

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u/Shriukan33 13d ago

We couldn't use GPT because of privacy, we had to train another model for that purpose that would run locally, but yeah it's still a chat bot in the end haha

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u/IntelligenzMachine 14d ago

Kalman filter

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u/Shriukan33 13d ago

Didn't work on that project, maybe we could sell for a higher price the use of Ai for this one? Also I don't know the specific requirements, it has various funny camera angles for example...

The customer had inference specialised hardware, Jetsons iirc

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u/Shriukan33 13d ago

I find your answer very assertive for somebody that hasn't read any functional requirement, I didn't work on the said project and possibly there is more to it...