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The drug deal that is AI

I really can't believe that so many companies are walking into the AI trap with their eyes wide open.

While it's true that when used appropriately, AI can offer some degree of cost savings to many businesses, those savings are not always as great as touted and they come with a huge risk.

If you build key parts of your business's front or back-end support systems around a cloud-based AI agent, you become incredibly vulnerable to any issues that service may experience -- even issues that are beyond their control such as comms outages.

We've already seen what happens when the EFTPOS network fails for any reason -- heavily dependent retail operations such as supermarkets grind to a halt, with only cash transactions possible.

Now magnify that by a factor of ten or more...

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Damn, why is it so hard to keep any reliable forum capability going these days?

I'll be working to get the forums up again but it seems that it might not be a simple task. The hosting company has obviously changed something but now it's up to me to try and get PHPBB working with their new configuration :-/

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