Technology

He can't keep getting away with this!!😭

Microsoft AI CEO

Considering the company, I suspect they heard what they'd said and immediately gave them another raise. "that's the kind of insanity that made this company what it is today!"

Right?

If he is the head of AI it's literally his job to understand why people are resisting adoption.

Likely he knows the answer but to say it out loud would be admitting something he can't.

If an AI can effectively do your coursework, why wouldn't AI replace you in the industry?

Managers being completely out of touch and also not realizing how useless they are is an ancient tale, no offense to your kin but even before AI you could generally assume stupidity when meeting an MBA, at minimum you can assume lack of curiosity or anything interesting to say.

Elmo's dedication and ability to endure punishing amounts of shit makes elmo not only the best on Earth, but probably the best in the universe when it comes to eating fetid maggotty rotting shit.

If anything it demonstrates how easily they can be replaced by AI, but not everyone else

Abstraction layers. They are so detached from everyone else through abstraction layers that we're nothing more than D2 NPC character sheets to them. That's why when a Luigi, alegedly, breaks through all of the abstraction layers and brings a leaded reality check to these fucking parasites they double down on palantir like projects to keep themselves safe while making the state even more oppressive and invasive of everyone's privacy.

Managers love these AI tools because that's what they're already doing and familiar with; the same way you talk an AI to doing something for you is not very different from the experience of instructing a mediocre worker.

Right?! At the end of the day, they're still just people. Gotta eat, gotta sleep, gotta shit. I will never understand how any individual gets so much money/power/attention because they're all just god damn people and in the event of a catastrophe i imagine they would be about as helpful as any other random human. They aren't gods, and they certainly don't deserve the stratification. It's not like they're enlightened or something, most of the time they're just sociopaths who are rich, clever, and/or connected. When you get a glimpse under the hood at moments like this, it really is kinda jarring. Helps to dispel those silly presumptions about them at least.

What you're describing is a general experience with LLM, not limited to the C-level.

If an LLM sprouts rubbish you detect it because you have external knowledge, in other words, you're the subject matter expert.

What makes you think that those same errors are not happening at the same rate outside your direct personal sphere of knowledge?

Now consider what this means for the people around you, including the C-level.

Repeat after me, AI is Assumed Intelligence and should not be considered anything more than autocorrect on steroids.

Their whole shtick is to bullshit and confidence game their way through their career. Of course they're going to be impressed by the rock solid bs and confidence of AI.

Genuinely what I wished for when the Samsung Galaxy Fold 7 was announced as "The First AI Phone".

Instead what was shown in the livestream was literally Gemini, a product of another company on a €2000 smartphone that doesn't even use the hardware you pay for.

I had to enable javascript to see that abomination.

I mean yes, but also no. I get the point and it's a good one, but sounds a bit like people just shouldn't complain because 200 years ago refrigerators didn't exist.

So, there was this TV experiment where they served soup to a well-known scientist*, but, with his agreement, they stirred it first with an unused - and I stress unused - toilet brush.

He couldn't bring himself to eat it.

Metaphorically speaking, our world is full of amazing things but they're all stirred by clean toilet brushes. Sometimes, it's worse than that and they're used.

Do not want.

* Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, he was later cancelled for being old and out of touch on women's issues among other things, which is kind of an example of this same trope when you think about it. His opinions and reactions on soup and food disgust aren't linked to any of that but you might be tempted to ignore the result because of it.

But then, that puts him in the same category as Louis CK and that's what I'm responding to. Food for thought.