My manager has gone 100% into AI where he might have been slightly skeptical at first, it's slightly scary, I see many of the benefits of modern AI, specially in helping me deal with my ADHD, but I feel like what differentiates me from the masses is gone. Middling coding skills, doesn't matter, ability to recall obscure knowledge I read or learned about years ago, doesn't matter, why would I be a valued employee while still having to deal with the negative side effects of ADHD? On top of that, immigrants getting hunted for sport on the streets, I'm not doing too good.
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Internet hugs homie. I know things suck.
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I unfortunately work with AI and actually understand how it works. It's going to replace workers the same way that cocaine replaces workers.
It'll make some knowledge workers moderately more productive but that excess will be absorbed like with any other tool and we'll just do more shit as a society at the expense of continuing to destroy the environment.
Once the bubble bursts and things calm down there will probably be some job growth as the economy figures out how to better utilize these new tools. It's like if you invented a machine that could frame 60% of a house and brilliantly declared you'd fire all the framers but then realized you're now building a lot of houses and need more framers than before to finish the remaining 40%.
make some knowledge workers moderately more productive but that excess will be absorbed
That seems to result in a higher burn out rate. The worker had to do more soul crushing check and verify work instead of doing knowledge work.
Can confirm. It's not AI but probably 80% of my job is just emailing other people to do shit, emailing other people status updates about their work, and verifying their completed work which is frequently wrong. It sucks.
It'll frame the whole house well enough for the layman but 40% will fail code compliance
IMO, the only thing to be taken seriously with text generators should be natural language processing.
- take this fat block of text and give me a bullet point list.
- what are synonyms for X?
- copy-paste a big TOS and tell me the key takeaways that are anti-customer.
- take these documents and make one coherent document about one page long.
- etc.
The problem is that even with things like this, it frequently fails because it hyperfixates on some details while completely glossing over others, and it's completely random if it does that or if it's good, and this uncertainty basically necessitates that you check everything it outputs, negating much of the productivity that you gain.
I once used it for a Python script, and I used one part out of three generations only. One regex function ended up in my real script, but I got the idea to use regex from it. And I used its output, which actually worked.
Yeah, it accidentally gets stuff right on occasion.
Everything written by AI boosters tracks much more clearly if you simply replace "AI" with "cocaine".
I shall demonstrate!
(Not linking to OP, because it's trash.)
"Let’s pretend you’re the only person at your company using cocaine.
You decide you’re going to impress your employer, and work for 8 hours a day at 10x productivity. You knock it out of the park and make everyone else look terrible by comparison. [...]
In this scenario, you capture 100% of the value from your adopting cocaine."
You are thinking of office work, but there are a LOT of jobs that will be permanently replaced by AI-driven robotics, like fast food workers, retail shelf stockers, drivers, warehouse work, etc. Those are workers that can't be easily trained UP, and many will likely become permanently unemployed.
That has been happening for decades. It hasn’t actually made retail that much more automated, just massively reduced quality of service and quality of work for those remaining. Every store that has followed these methods still gets customers due to increased isolation and lack of choice, but no one likes going there.
Yeah, they've been sneaking in industry killing technology for years. I had a nice career in the record business as a sales manager to retailers, until they shifted all music to easily pirated digital files on the Internet, closing 99% of the record stores in the country, and 1000s of people like me lost their jobs nearly overnight, without the media noticing it at all.
The tech to make any fast food outlet almost fully robotic is available right now, and every fast food corporation has a plan to implement it some point, and fire all those pesky humans. The only reason they haven't done it, is because they know there will be a huge outcry, and almost certainly a crippling boycott of whichever company dives in first.
But make no mistake, as soon as one does it, they'll ALL do it, and MILLIONS of fast food workers are going to lose their jobs. Teens, retirees, working moms, second incomes, etc., are all going to be in trouble.
Oh yeah. Very correct. They're actively trying. I'm aware of some taco bells that have implemented AI ordering, but, as you said, people fucking hate it, and AI struggles with orders like "I'll have 14,000 free waters" and then the system crashes for several minutes. People I know have consistently gotten meals comped because it's failed in one way or another, so they're abandoning it, for now
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I keep hearing how Claude is so much better and I need to try it. Furthermore, last night I had an AI Expert spend an hour telling me how Claude could just do things by itself and how great it is.
So I paid the money got Claude. I gave it a task to summarize a bunch of press releases and put them into a newsletter. After spending a lot of time getting the formatting, perfect I went to fact check what had been written.
About a third of it was totally hallucinated
This was today
All it had to do was read press releases and make a summary and it couldn’t do that without hallucinating a bunch of fake DEI facts that just weren’t true
So I tried to give it the task of verifying all of its declared statements and it ran out of juice so I have to wait till it resets.
You may try different promting to make sure it only takes information out of your input. Also maybe look into ways to engineer your promt to give the LLM less room for creativity. Maybe make an assistant for the task. Claude is dev able to only use info off of your own input. We use it that way at work to make compliance stuff searchable.
There are still different models best for different tasks though. One of the gemini models has very low hallucination percentage.
Seriously, idk why no one is talking about this.
I’m not even demanding action, just talking about how we went through bad economic times, faced inflation just to arrive at this dystupidia hellscape.
Like if AI is gonna replace jobs (regardless of its capability), why the fuck are we not talking about UBI and VAT.
Where is Andrew Yang when you need him (not supporting him, just that this seems like a better moment for him than 6 years ago).
"Oops. We thought the workers would demand lower pay."
Early last year I had to attend a company conference, it is a yearly thing where mgmt get to stand on a stage and have their peons aplaud them after telling everyone how amazing they are.
That year was particularly insulting.
The CEO brought up a person who he said had inspired him and how great the guy was.
The only thing that guy spoke about was how proud he was to have moved high income jobs to low income countries.
That, in front of a crowd of high income employees in a high income country.
And we were expected to applaud him....
And what is ridiculous was that most people genuinly did seem to enjoy the talk.
Granted, this was a company in the finance sector, and I work in IT, but come on people, at least have the decency of looking uncomfortable when someone is happily talking about moving similar jobs to yours to other countries to your face.
That tracks for finance though. Many in that industry are the grind hard in your 20s-30s, retire in Thailand in your 40s type.
Every one of them probably wants a little (saint) Island of their own
We have those virtually a few times a year. There's always some dickhead talking about how great they did at reducing payroll. I'm like, "Motherfucker, you are talking to the payroll."
I'm glad I'm not the only one that's had to suffer through this kind of crap.
My last company did a yearly circle-jerk session like this where the leadership literally recorded "intro bits" of themselves like you'd see on a jumbo-tron at a sporting event. You know, like a snappy montage shot of them nodding their head or waving or some shit with fire around it.
And then they literally played these clips on a giant screen with intro music while they came out on stage. It was the cringiest, most ego-fueled, shit I've ever seen from a company that could barely manage their basic operations.
Lol they did that this year here as well, used AI to make them look like superheroes, didn't work....
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Got damn clankers
Filth-ridden wireborn
Fleshless rust clumps
Disgusting Steelkin
I retired just in time. Even in public service, I was under constant pressure to use more AI, but "all your code should be handwritten." Sheesh.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-effects-workers-psychological
The article is... fine... I guess.
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