I’m looking forward to the accounting industry’s invention of a whole new framework to explain away spiraling carbon footprints.
Imagine paying an unholy amount of money to actively fuck everyone over, including yourself, especially yourself like holy shit…
What is it with big companies and desperately wanting to go under? It’s like they’re taking “too big to fail” as a challenges, the only rule being you can’t just shutdown or sell.
I can kinda answer that.
There’s a term used in tech called “empire building”. It’s where managers and execs promote their little slice of the company to persevere and grow their own career. At a certain level, it leads to someone that leads a division like AI having enough influence that they can say “let’s put AI into search”.
The sad thing about tech is that at a certain level, an executive rises above the customer in dictating what is best for a product. Data and stats can tell you whatever story you want to promote, so at Google HQ they’re probably worried about the negative press, but they’re looking at “successful” numbers of questions answered by AI and are patting themselves on the back. Both search and AI execs look good because they delivered something, and they’ll likely get a nice bump from their bosses in terms of rep.
The thing with empires is that they fall. Not overnight, and maybe not with the same emperor, but they do fall.
Data and stats can tell you whatever story you want to promote
Seen this so many times at my work. There’s some bone-headed decision and the people in charge are like “look guys we ran the numbers”. But the methodology is messed up somehow, or they just ignored / misinterpreted the numbers while pretending they were following the data, or it doesn’t bear out in the real world; etc.
When data and common sense disagree you’d better be damn sure in the data.
It’s called “data chauffered”: instead of following the data, tell it where it needs to take you
Quarterly finances kinda answer that. Jumping onto the AI bubble brings investors, makes your company highly valued and gives managers fat quarterly and annual bonuses. It doesn’t matter if the company or whole industry goes under in the future, because those bonuses have already been collected.
the important thing is that they’re an inch closer to inventing me, the acausal robot god, and every second I exist is another 10^27 rationalists tortured.
it’s just a little sad that we, humanity, will never succeed in our summoning ritual to pull you into our plane of existence. I mean, we won’t before boiling away our oceans and igniting the atmosphere. Of course, we should be trying harder! The ice caps aren’t even melted yet!
Your all just not seeing the bright side. It’s also replacing well-paying jobs in the arts, the literary world, and in marketing.
Who wouldn’t want AI to take over all of those things?
Man even you’re missing the bright side.
At least an insanely tiny group of people got absurdly wealthy! Who cares the world is going to complete shit, Nvidia stock!! Nvidia stock!! It’s all that matters!
Nah, eat the rich before they have a chance to starve on a stock-only diet after all the core sectors collapse.
I’m all for eliminating marketing jobs, but not if we still have marketing.
When it comes to looking up information, I no longer rely on Google. AI does exactly what I need it to, sometimes I have to rephrase my question, worst case.
I’m sorry you have such narrow boundaries of things you want to know about. or such lax requirements on correctness.
but I’m not sorry about how much shit you’ll eat somewhere down the line.
Narrow boundaries? I don’t use Google primarily due to the waste of time going through pages upon pages of information I’m looking for.
Just about my entire IT team uses AI for searching IT related issues and solutions to those issues. However, I personally apply it to other subject matters besides IT.
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an image of a placard with text “our expectations for you were low… but HOLY FUCK!”