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Replacing CEOs might be the only good use case for AI. Both are terribly incompetent and easily replaced.
This reminds me of the (quite good!) scifi short-story about an AI that is given free reign over a fastfood restaurant:
LLMs are giving you the statistically most likely association of words given the training material they read and the context they have in the current conversation. Their answers are, in a way, mathematically correct by definition. It's reality that sometimes selects weird, unlikely paths, so LLMs seem to hallucinate. But it's reality that we have to fix! Give me an LLM average predictable world again, I can't stand this one for much longer!
/s (but not conpletely....)
It's funny to read about LLMs running businesses. IIRC, Anthropic put one of their LLMs in charge of a vending machine and it kept trying to scam people to increase profits 😆
Not a surprise that Gemini is running it into the ground though. Every time I try Gemini, it reminds me about how much dumber LLMs used to be
I tried to use it to make a simple drawing for an internal app logo the other day and wound up running out of tokens for the day trying to get it to put the rungs back into the ladder that it kept removing.
Logos are a nightmare and UIs. I dont want a concept of the tools UI, just a picture please.
or the reverse where it was giving people free stuff.
Just tell it to make billions instead of bankrupting the business. It's so easy
“she”
oh fuck off
AI boosters crying into their computers: "but I put make no mistakes into the prompt how is this happening!!!"
Genuine curiosity:
You’re of course allowed to be mad at techbros and capitalism, but this feels like getting mad at a technology which I can’t resolve.
It’s a wonderful and fascinating technology that has real value and purpose when used correctly.
Is it a conflating of techbros + the new tech that everyone’s reacting to, or are we actually mad at the tech itself?
Thanks so much in advance for any constructive answers
did Altman tickle your balls exactly the way you like it or why are you nuthugging the shit out of him now? ridiculously pathetic groveling behaviour. seek help that isn't a chatbot acting like its your obedient tradwife gf.
Real value and purpose...give one example.
The article isn't about the technology. This "experiment" is pure techbro fantasy.
First it's the tech bros using a tech for something it wasn't meant for and continuously lying about it. That causes a backlash and makes people hate the tech itself, because it's being used where it causes friction.
Yeah, it really sucks, because LLM tech itself is amazing. Quantifying language and ideas into what's basically a massive queryable concept map is a huge achievement. What do the tech giants decide to do with that achievement? Shove it every little place it doesn't belong making everyone hate it.
Oh well, I'll keep backing up the interesting local open-source models people make and playing with them in the corner.
LLM's are a technological dead end. They aren't interesting in the slightest, as anything they can do is already done more effectively and efficiently with other tools
Huh?
I think people just need to reset their expectations.
I asked one for help to interpret PCI policy application (credit card regulatory stuff). I gave it the situation and it provided me with a good answer that, when I asked our compliance team about, they agreed.
That saved me a lot of time. I don't see how that's a dead end. Then I had it draft a response to the person asking questions; I tuned it a little to my liking and sent it. What might have taken me an hour before took 10 minutes. This seems like a helpful thing, not a bad thing. I'm not sure what other technology would have done that.
I had it draft a response to the person asking questions; I tuned it a little to my liking and sent it.
Gemini, remind me not to ask blargh any questions.
Also, Gemini, my daughter is asking for someone to play with her. Can you run around with the feather wand and have her chase it or something?
I think LLMs are an interesting technology. Of course, the output is inherently untrustworthy, and that rules out a ton of applications tech bros are trying to cram it into.
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Was your reply generated by LLM? because you don't seem to have understood the joke but seem to have confidently gone off on one.
context window smdh let’s invest more, just a startup cost 😅😰
While it's one of my favorite words, "inexorably" does not fit here.
When I was young I heard the phrase "time marches inexorably forward" and I always thought it was one of those really cool phrases everyone knew from some philosopher or like from Shakespeare or some highbrow source of wisdom or wit.
Recently I looked it up, and I can't for the life of me figure out where it came from, or why I thought it was one of those ubiquitous things everyone had heard before. It was probably actually from some X-Men cartoon or something silly but I'll never figure it out.
I wish I could go back in time and figure out where I heard that phrase with that specific wording but, you know what they say....
This word is new to me! From Dictionary.com:
in a way that is unyielding, unchangeable, or unavoidable.
Fate seemed to be working inexorably, relentlessly, to bring about the dictator's downfall.
café barista Kajetan Grzelczak sees it differently. “All the workers are pretty much safe,” he told the AP. “The ones who should be worried about their employment are the middle bosses, the people in management.”
This shows that AI can't do that job either.
They said the dystopian part out loud.
I love to shit on middle management as much as anybody else, but good managers are great. My manager worked his way up as a systems architect. He's incredibly smart, very friendly, and always has my back.
What getting rid of middle management does is build a solid wall between the workers and the upper class. There's no corporate ladder to climb. If you start at the bottom, you stay at the bottom. The people on top hire their buddies and other people in their class. This is like a drone strike on the shrinking middle class.
I'd be more afraid of losing that ladder if it were not already absent. Upward mobility in my country, at least, has essentially become a fiction.
I wonder if AI would actually be good at replacing CEO and other C-suite positions, but was trained in such a way to purposely not be good at replacing a CEO because tech CEOs are the ones in control of this bubble.
It has the number 1 qualification for being a C-suite employee - no soul!
Also endless bullshit.
Tells me you've never used it and had it deliver extremely convincing analysis which turns out to be pants on head stupid when you dig into the nitty gritty. It is only useful if you can continually watch its output and make it redo anything that is nonsense and no the AI can't watch itself. It will happily confirm that its nonsense is great. It needs either manual and continual analysis or guardrails that tell it when its wrong.. It's why it can be used for software because tests and error messages can catch it fucking up. Real life lacks such affordances.
I've used AI for work. We have something built based on claude. I only use it for finding particular lines of code, finding datadog logs, maybe identifying bugs, and finding old Jiras. It basically just saves time then the rest I do myself or work with engineering.
Your comment tells me you never worked with someone in the C-suite before. Most Chief level positions will happily confirm their nonsense is great.
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God, I'm so sick of AI that I feel like a luddite. I used to be a tech nerd, and enjoy the cutting edge of developing technologies. Now I just wish we could go back in time. I think the problem isn't so much the developing technology, but rather the way it is being crammed down our throats whether we want it or not. Everywhere I look I'm inundated with AI slop. Youtube has gotten ridiculous. I used to be able to find interesting content fairly easily. Now, every search is full of an endless array of AI slop from brand new accounts with only a few hundred followers. Anything good has been buried by 10,000 AI-generated ripoffs. Maybe someday AI will come into it's own, but it is nowhere near there now, and I am so, so tired of having to deal with it. It's like the entire world is being turned into one of those automated customer service telephone lines that are completely useless; that you're stuck navigating until you're put on hold for 30 minutes when you ask to speak to a human.
I’m so sick of AI that I feel like a luddite
The luddites weren't against technology, the were against the exploitation of the workers enabled by technology
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Get kagi. I don't use the internet without it
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Get the huge u block ai blocklist.
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Get newpipe and only flow youtubers you trust
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Collect consoles and PCs from pre 2008 and put them in a room you can lock yourself in to be free from shitty modern tech
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Delete social media
The problem is, AI is being used as a replacement for informed decisions/information, but it was never properly trained on how to be factual or make responsible adult decisions. AI is literally a global spam bot/virus that has infected Earth worse than Covid ever could. And the people pushing it on us are worse than anti-vax/anti-maskers.
When old memory of ordering stuff is out of the context window, she completely forgets what she has ordered in the past
Look I agree that AI is probably a terrible business manager… but this is irresponsible design on the researcher’s part. AI breaks past the context window with tool calling. If it doesn’t have a list inventory tool, it will obviously fail to do this correctly.
These techniques are built into virtually every coding harness today, if you’re not using them for a business harness, that’s negligent.
No surprises here. Well, at least the items it ordered this time were kinda-sorta-maybe-almost plausible to stock at a café, unlike the tungsten cubes in the vending machine.
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Counterpoint: put AI in charge of big corpos immediately, drive them bankrupt. As a bonus you don’t have to pay CEO salary to do it! Win/win!
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