Ask HN: What non-IT/Software industries have benefitted the most from AI?
Where have costs been greatly reduced, or performance increased, etc?
Boutique marketing and e-commerce.
Small business entrepreneurs are piecing together AI plug-ins to provide themselves with round-the-clock, fractional marketing services. This allows them to avoid paying hefty monthly retainers and automate their SEO copywriting, test different versions of ads and qualify their leads automatically on a constant basis. It has made the production of creative assets almost free of charge, making it possible for individuals to perform tasks previously done by professional marketing teams.
I would think in any domain that used to suffer due to lack of a fuzzy, search.
In cases where LLMs are used to generate stuff, when push comes to shove, LLMs fails to deliver. This is fundamental.
For example, if you talk to an LLM regarding any subject, it will appear like a scholar initially. But if you push it deep enough, you will notice that it is just circling. This is same for any domain..
I actually think specific models can help with education. Especially when catering to an individual childs need instead of one large blob of people having to learn the same way, while money is always getting tighter for education.
Translation and I don't think anything else is even close, including IT/software.
Toilet Cleaning and food serving robots
Uber eclipsed by Tesla Cybertaxi FSD.