It’s telling the wording - continue to work on AI while rigorously reviewing ROI of other initiatives. Shouldn’t AI be rigorously evaluated? Too much money in slopping out poor quality shit while laying people off in any company, that’s why companies are putting NOS on the AI bandwagon. You don’t even have to calculate it, you just know LLM slop will be cheaper than humans.
Until, of course it isn’t. When you break trust, and there are impactful catastrophes, or just regular incompetence…suddenly AI will lose its star status of “this will get me my annual bonus or stock options” status and be relegated to its actually helpful use cases like parsing medical insurance claim denial statements. Then they’ll be hiring humans back–and that cycle may not take long. Once AI is demoted, people who actually want to make it work instead of getting paid will likely improve it a good deal, but the charlatans will have made theirs by that point. And that’s always the point in the cycle to get big spend from gullible decision-makers.
When the US govt and heads of most companies are old, white men who do not understand the tech implications for their product, and won’t be around in 30 years to care if it’s still marketable and sustainable, I guess it makes sense for them economically to just get paid this quarter.
“Because of AI” sounds like the new excuse to shareholders to avoid saying “layoffs”.
It’s telling the wording - continue to work on AI while rigorously reviewing ROI of other initiatives. Shouldn’t AI be rigorously evaluated? Too much money in slopping out poor quality shit while laying people off in any company, that’s why companies are putting NOS on the AI bandwagon. You don’t even have to calculate it, you just know LLM slop will be cheaper than humans.
Until, of course it isn’t. When you break trust, and there are impactful catastrophes, or just regular incompetence…suddenly AI will lose its star status of “this will get me my annual bonus or stock options” status and be relegated to its actually helpful use cases like parsing medical insurance claim denial statements. Then they’ll be hiring humans back–and that cycle may not take long. Once AI is demoted, people who actually want to make it work instead of getting paid will likely improve it a good deal, but the charlatans will have made theirs by that point. And that’s always the point in the cycle to get big spend from gullible decision-makers.
When the US govt and heads of most companies are old, white men who do not understand the tech implications for their product, and won’t be around in 30 years to care if it’s still marketable and sustainable, I guess it makes sense for them economically to just get paid this quarter.