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doG help us all.
We thought these new technologies would help humanity, to have more time to concentrate on the real work. Instead they're being used to exploit us even more, and in such a stupid way.
It's one of those things where having even the slightest bit of insight, you can predict that this is going to crash big time, eventually. Yet the people who should don't listen. And then, when it inevitably happens, everyone is very surprised indeed. And somebody who knew it, just like you and thousands of other people, will be celebrated as some sort of prophet. We truly live in a dark age.
I would make Thursday AI day and do everything with AI. And Friday is recovery day, where I discard everything that didn't work, and do what I want, to recover motivation for long-term sustainability.
I wonder if and when they would notice a productivity difference. I certainly couldn't and wouldn't be able to do that indefinitely.
You mean the topic of the article, or what you just wrote?
What I wrote. I wouldn't want to do AI Thursday and kinda malicious compliance for a prolonged time.
Ok, I didn't catch that's what you're going for; what you described didn't sound like a too bad strategy to get at least a little bit out of AI. And every employer should support your motivation. Should.
I don't think you can blame anyone except him for not understanding that AI sometimes hallucinates. Hell basically every AI tool makes you read that before you start using it. I'm normally very reticent to blame users for using things incorrectly, but if it took him 3 hours to realise it was wrong here then I have to say that's on him.
Come on has anyone else ever persevered with a hallucinated answer for 3 hours before realising it was a hallucination? Longest it's taken me is like 5 minutes, and that's only for things that aren't easily googleable.