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Absute twaddle.

Very similar to the interwebs circa 1999 - I worked at a *paper* company and at an annual meeting, an elderly shareholder asked how the company would be taking advantage of the internet.

OMG, so accurate!

“What do we want?” “ALL THERE IS AND THEN SOME!”

They built it up when they thought it would give them a new Google-like monopoly, but they are starting to realize AI search is less desirable to consumers than 2015 Google Search.

They know what they want AI to do. They want AI to replace people.

Sigh, I'm in the middle of it right now. Leadership: "Let's use AI to do this thing" Me: "Why don't we just create an automation to do exactly what we want instead of having AI guess?" Leadership: "Because AI!"

Ironically, CEO is one of the jobs most replaceable by AI.

100% this

Did you ever stop to think that it's not "HAL" or AI in general that would initiate an evil plot to take over the world, but instead it's the purveyors of AI who're oh so close to accomplishing that goal.

AI has an environmental problem. Here’s what the world can do about that. share.google/sg7iLjR9kB9S...

Upper MGMT: You are asking me to just "figure it out" when the tool doesn't work, the budget is blown, and I have to fire a percentage? Exec: No! A percentage from every department at every level. Just keep the best folks and make them fix the worst slop while I buy you time on the earnings call

They think it's their ticket to the infinite money machine.

For surveillance- look at China 🤷‍♀️

WHO'S GONNA PAY FOR IT? YOU!!

responsibility laundry utility (challenge: Obvious)

Repost or didn't happen?

Also every college and university.

Oh they know, its firing more workers.

It very much feels like this with AI. It keeps being thrown out as this wonderful solution to all our problems, and companies and governments are rushing to invest in it. Yet it's pretty unreliable, and a lot of it does just seem media hype. Myself? I try not to use it, even if sites make it hard.

2026: Corporations hiring back workers after finding out that AIs can only do so much without human input--after the tech bros making AI have insulted every form of artist, musician, and writer on the planet, and they've taken to pre-Internet types of communication. ;)

Who wants money? Me! How do we get money? People give it to us! Why do people give us money? Because we lie to them! wait....

AI is an overhyped product being marketed to company executives to replace their most costly employees (that aren't them) AKA white collar workers. AI is antithetical to a functional middle class. It's there to maximize capitalism, where a company will just be the laborers and the factory owners.

AI to do what? Replace our employees!

I have personal experience of this. I've had to build systems that use AI and never go anywhere because customers look at the cost and performance and recoil. We tell them we can do it faster and cheaper without AI and go with that.

Oh, the CEOs know what they want. They want all the money. All of it.

FOMO ⇉ OH-NO

Hey now let's be fair. They want it to produce endless Content™ or Product™ for consumers to pay for, without having to pay anyone for it 😜

Today’s AI is a baby that can already fool us with fake scenarios. By next year it’ll be a toddler amazed at how stupid humans are. In 18 months and it’ll be a teenager looking at us the way we look at ants.

AI to do what? To replace humans at a fraction of the cost of human employees!

So true

The third answer should be, “Replace our employees!”

Our management shared this unironically while asking for more AI integration.

no, they want slaves.

My employer wants it so they can add ‘tech’ as an additional vertical in the business description. They’ve pushed so hard it’s alienated employees who’ve been there for decades.

Like on every other post about a.i., people in the replies are spewing the same anti-a.i. b.s., just like trained automatons...