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If that rids the world of despicable ones like Palantirs, openai, etc... Wish them success
I wonder on what data those AI models might be trained....
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Well, it'll say it likes developers.
While true, to be sincere, in many countries humans that make important decisions often aren't held accountable as well.
Putting AI in charge isn't how you fix that
Never said it was a solution. Just said that having no accountability is not the differentiator that the images tries to claim it is.
No, but it gives potential for incredibely funny moments
Well... Putting AI in other shit hasn't fixed that stuff. CEOs are the ones forcing it down our throats. It's time they taste their own medicine. And maybe we replace a few politicians with AI while we are at it.
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LAUGH at people who let AI make dumbass decisions
Well, employee morale is going to be great at whichever company they hand to an AI to run. But who cares about employees?
Their shared bet is that companies will automate individual jobs piece by piece until humans oversee the work rather than perform it.
For CEOs maybe this sounds great, but for anyone with a skilled job who knows the satisfaction of practising and improving your skills every day, it sounds hellish. All humans will become middle managers for the foreseeable future, possibly the least rewarding job there is.
It reminds me of when that CEO of an AI music company claimed musicians don't enjoy making music. It gives you a little glimpse of how joyless these techbros' lives really are, and they want to bring that to the rest of us.
When I was a senior software engineer, I was offered a management position… I said no, because I knew I would hate it and do a terrible job. I actually like programming, and I absolutely hate asking an A.I. to do it for me.
Actually funny story. Or maybe unfunny. I was doing a web project a while ago, and the host site I was trying out asked me to describe my project. I naïvely did so, thinking it was like a description or something. When I hit next, the site A.I. automatically did my entire project for me. All the code, folder structures, API calls, everything.
I just sat there feeling bad feelings for a while. I think it actually made me a bit depressed. Took all the joy out of the project and I never touched it again.
That sounds awful
I had the same experience. I was doing a little home project to improve my Rust programming skills and my understanding of a couple of algorithms. I asked the AI to wire up the command line arguments so I could move on to the more interesting bits. It got carried away, rewrote my code, fixed the bugs and finished the whole project. I just sat there feeling disappointed. It was like someone telling you how a movie turns out just as you're settling in with your popcorn.
Not Microsoft to CEOs, of course
The accelerationist urges in me are disappointed by this.
If it makes you feel any better, it’s headlines like this that spread accelerationism
And I’m here to redirect your blinding, piecing, eye-popping rage into Democratic Socialism. Just look at Mamdani. Tell me that you don’t love that guy. Not just because his politics and policies help everyone, but because he’s a genuinely nice guy who actually lives up to his promises. (and, not for nothin’, dude is super cute). And his successful election proved to the country that Democratic socialism can actually succeed. And in so many primaries, it already has!
I hope you’re registered to vote!
Hope— not just an Obama thing
I’m glad I’m not screaming into the void
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Spread it far and wide!
Like channel the rage into supporting democratic socialism right?
Yes. And while you may not specifically endorse Democratic socialism, at least I might hope to get you on board with supporting political and policy measures that help the people and supporting politicians that actually follow through with their promises to help the people.
And if they’re also pretty good looking, that can hurt, right?
What exactly do CEOs do, anyways?
Make shitty decisions, like letting AI make decisions.
Market the company and, for smaller companies that want funding, beg and network.
Leadership is often removed from how work actually gets done. This is part of why they often make bonkers decisions.
They don't understand that most of the time isn't going into typing code into the computer. It's figuring out what the product guy and CEO actually want. It's pulling answers out of them (eg: what do you want to do if the user's name is null?) or dealing with it when they don't like your decision (eg: you didn't say what to do when I don't have their name, so the email just says "hey". I really don't think this is a crisis)