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Very poor article. It doesn't link to the study, and it doesn't give details about what type of workers the study examined.

n4r9 2y ago
It looks like it tries and fails to link to the study. I did a quick google and found this, which is what I think it's trying to link to: https://www.upwork.com/research/ai-enhanced-work-models https://www.upwork.com/research/ai-enhanced-work-models
- gortok 2y ago
  This is not a study. This is an executive summary of a study. This sort of stuff rankles me. Without the numbers, questions, and methodology there’s no way to ascertain what errors the folks who created the study committed, if any.
safety1st 2y ago
This part resonated for me > To add insult to injury, nearly half (47%) of employees using AI say they don’t know how to achieve the expected productivity gains their employers expect, and 40% feel their company is asking too much of them when it comes to AI. I routinely talk to clients and partners where the business decision makers are just utterly delusional about what AI will produce for them. They genuinely seem to think the age of employing people is ending which I guess isn't a shock since that's what Sam Altman and the media have been telling them. Meanwhile internally we're just puttering along using Copilot and it's definitely a force that can be used for great good or great ill. I can say it has... Further reduced my appetite for hiring people to do programming tasks that should be automated out of existence anyway? That seems like a fair assessment. It's somewhere between a tool and a toy for helping complete the real work. Edit: oh yeah, and sooooo many tech products out there right now burning dev time on AI features that aren't really useful.
- whoknowsidont 2y ago
  >I routinely talk to clients and partners where the business decision makers are just utterly delusional You can just stop there; the problem is not necessarily with AI but the type of people that have power.
  - kragen 2y ago
    on the plus side, the sort of investors who entrust their companies to management that bets them on ai without understanding how to use it will not have power much longer :)
- tbrake 2y ago
  > They genuinely seem to think the age of employing people is ending which I guess isn't a shock since that's what Sam Altman and the media have been telling them. I wonder if they have good answers as to who will buy their products after all the jobs are gone. Reminds me of https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/16/robots-buy-cars/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/16/robots-buy-cars/ . An anecdote 70 years old at this point but seemingly evergreen in its applicability.

n4r9 2y ago

It looks like it tries and fails to link to the study. I did a quick google and found this, which is what I think it's trying to link to: https://www.upwork.com/research/ai-enhanced-work-models https://www.upwork.com/research/ai-enhanced-work-models

gortok 2y ago
This is not a study. This is an executive summary of a study. This sort of stuff rankles me. Without the numbers, questions, and methodology there’s no way to ascertain what errors the folks who created the study committed, if any.

safety1st 2y ago

This part resonated for me > To add insult to injury, nearly half (47%) of employees using AI say they don’t know how to achieve the expected productivity gains their employers expect, and 40% feel their company is asking too much of them when it comes to AI. I routinely talk to clients and partners where the business decision makers are just utterly delusional about what AI will produce for them. They genuinely seem to think the age of employing people is ending which I guess isn't a shock since that's what Sam Altman and the media have been telling them. Meanwhile internally we're just puttering along using Copilot and it's definitely a force that can be used for great good or great ill. I can say it has... Further reduced my appetite for hiring people to do programming tasks that should be automated out of existence anyway? That seems like a fair assessment. It's somewhere between a tool and a toy for helping complete the real work. Edit: oh yeah, and sooooo many tech products out there right now burning dev time on AI features that aren't really useful.

whoknowsidont 2y ago
>I routinely talk to clients and partners where the business decision makers are just utterly delusional You can just stop there; the problem is not necessarily with AI but the type of people that have power.
- kragen 2y ago
  on the plus side, the sort of investors who entrust their companies to management that bets them on ai without understanding how to use it will not have power much longer :)
tbrake 2y ago
> They genuinely seem to think the age of employing people is ending which I guess isn't a shock since that's what Sam Altman and the media have been telling them. I wonder if they have good answers as to who will buy their products after all the jobs are gone. Reminds me of https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/16/robots-buy-cars/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/11/16/robots-buy-cars/ . An anecdote 70 years old at this point but seemingly evergreen in its applicability.