Honestly an idea I've had with the recent surge of interest in LLMs is some type of robotic pet. I feel like LLMs can understand human language and images(hopefully soon) to the extent that a pet should be able to. Some kind of robotic dog that can not only express emotions, but understand what you say to it, seems like it would be pretty successful if done correctly.
The nice thing is that it doesn't even have to understand perfectly, a GPT-4 level of vision/language understanding would be perfectly fine. It doesn't have to hold a conversation, just be able to be happy or sad when it should.
You'd be surprised how much a pet can understand.It's more like we can't understand them.They know all our ticks and can sense emotions before even we realize.
I’ve spent significant time training and mentoring new people. Any time they ask me something I’ll drop everything to help them, as I don’t want them to think I’m ever too busy for them. My default is assuming someone is going to stick around, unless their words or actions tell me otherwise.
Imo, only similar type of people get the attention which they can usually use better at another company making more but sucks for the senior. Hence, mentoring should be done selflessly based on who needs it most as it ends up increasing the average and hopefully some other senior somewhere trains your new hire.