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Then don't invent the fucking torment nexus!
The problem is that they see people hating the torment nexus and then they assume it must be because they didn't market it correctly.
Like "oh I guess they don't like it because they can't share it, let's add a suffering multiplexer so they can enjoy it with friends and family^*^
~*⠀for⠀a⠀small**⠀fee~
~**⠀might⠀not⠀be⠀small~
The global nvestment in data centres for AI is a rouse, the GPUs will be repurposed for crypto based financial systems.
i (kind of) understand the crypto scam going on, and the AI center switch to crypto makes sense. but what's the lie or angle companies make to sell the switch?
They don't like when people use the AI trash they baked in their apps? Maybe they should get rid of it 🤔
Actions = Consequences
Oh, he's the one running Linkedin, now it makes sense why that site, of all places, has anti-AI features now. I hope the shareholders will have mercy with his soul.
I got into this business inspired by the innovations Microsoft was exploring a decade ago. Microsoft led cloud convenience and digital platform synergy
ew
You need to leave!!!
I really think you should.
You don't get to complain about the slop when you built the slop factory.
aparently these tech ceo shields thier own children from the brainrot/slop, they know its wrong its doing harm by placing them in expensive private schools away from the "brainrot"
And demanded everyone use the factory or lose their jobs.
Remember, though: Microsoft invented the slop factory when they created Microsoft Office.
Sending useless documents back and forth via Outlook predates AI by decades.
I thought they admitted defeat, embracing the uselessness and futility of nearly all office work when they released SharePoint, but I guess they're still just getting started 🤷
...And mandated their employees use it.
Now he's crying they did what they were told
He's probably only complaining because it's affecting him personally. If it was only destroying everyone else's lives he would be happy to be an executioner. After all, he's just following orders.
I’d give him the benefit of the doubt, because surely not everyone at microslop wants copilot everywhere, but he heads the department that put copilot into excel, so all my sympathies evaporated.
most scenarios
That's a strange way to spell "all"
Congratulations on making me snort wine out of my nose!
Love it
Microsoft (and maybe all the AI companies) made at least few mistakes in the marketing of this technology. AI isn't a replacement for human accountability. It still requires oversight and expertise. It is great for a first draft. It is terrible for a complete work product. Agents (with the right loops to verify accuracy) are reasonably complex - and most companies don't have the people development infrastructure to train their teams with the right skills to build them. Honestly, AI is shining a light on how terribly businesses have been run over the last 30 years, and how lazy business leaders are.
It is terrible for a first draft if you're aiming for something that reads like a human being's actual thoughts. Don't let an LLM think for you and create the first draft of "your" thoughts. At most, if you absolutely must, use it as a spell checker. But write your words yourself.
No one wants to know what ChatGPT thinks. We might want to know what you think... But only if it's actually you doing the thinking.
Sorry but I don't need my thoughts to write a cover letter lol
Nor do you need an LLM - someone makes a cover letter once and then you use it as a template.
It is great for a first draft
Only if the aim is towards mediocrity.
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It still requires oversight and expertise
Perhaps some people who don't mind the ethics of gen AI work very hard to produce good work. But I believe that when you give people an easy, low-effort path, a great many of them will take it (regardless of the quality of the results). Training notwithstanding, a vast number of people cannot resist the lure of doing as little as possible.
Yeah I get the feeling lazy people love it, and people who work hard know it doesn't produce very good results in most circumstances.
Unfortunately it seems a lot of managers are in the lazy group. So they assume that when employees tell them it doesn't work very well, they think it's because they have a "bad attitude" or something like that.
First draft of what? The AI* doesn't know what you're trying to make, so to use it, you first need to write a prompt to convey to it what you're trying to convey. If what you're trying to make takes the form of prose, there's your first draft already; there's nothing the AI can add other than padding and replacing your voice with a psychopath's. But to begin with, if you have the skill to turn a first draft into a final product, it's almost always going to be faster to just use that skill to create the first draft yourself instead of trying to convey to an AI what it's supposed to be like. If it isn't, it's something that's so easy to describe that there's either no value in making it or those few words are already the perfect way to convey it.
Also, this just completely undermines the whole thing:
It still requires oversight and expertise.
The sole virtue AI arguably has, is its accessibility; anyone who can read and write a supported natural language, can make use of it. But the moment it starts requiring expertise, that accessibility becomes worthless. To anyone who is even somewhat serious about what they're trying to do, that natural language interface just offers far too little control for their purposes.
*) For the purposes of this comment, "AI" refers to the kinds of natural language-driven generative AI heavily marketed by companies like Microsoft, not the general concept of artificial intelligence or even the underlying technology of those products.
This is an incredibly stupid take, can’t believe people upvoted this shit, lol
Have you not used AI agents anytime in the past 6 months?
They can pull in information that you don’t write down, it can create Powerpoint slides, it can create mermaid diagrams from your description.
Those are not things you just do manually because you can? At that point why not code in Notepad instead of relying on the stupid machine assisted IDEs?
And it is usually half right, its really a mess, unless you give it a really good rough draft outline.
I find writing the code is the easy part. The difficult part is figuring out what the requirements are, fitting together all of the data relationships, figuring out the security so the correct people and systems have access to the data. To do these things I need very specific knowledge of the systems I'm working on, knowledge the AI doesn't have.
I could see it could give you a simple interface that's similar to something it's been trained on. But it's capabilities are very limited in terms of doing anything novel. It can't actually understand a problem, it can only give some code similar to problems that exist in it's training data. Sometimes that's useful, since at times I do have to solve problems that's been solved by others. But most of the time the AI can't understand what I'm trying to do and it's easier to write the code than it is to try to explain to an LLM how to write the code I want it to write.
Attention driven economy. All enterprises now behave like they had a field week at used cars salesmen retreat. You can't sell unless the value proposition is grotesquely inflated.
I have a niece working for the gov on AI… 6 months ago she was all in on it, excited about the potential… yesterday she told me she is looking for a placement in a different area because she sees zero future in these projects
Tell her to practice her cursive. Young people and machines can't read it. That'll come in handy in the coming forever everywhere war for humanity
Macroslop complaining about Microslop. Poetic
is that not what you want CEO, its what you get.
Dude realised it was AI and then said he got his AI to summarize it...
Dude has a fever and the only prescription is more AI.
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