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First things first: The "article" (if it can be called one) is complete garbage and is nothing more than an advert for UpWork. That being said, the (clickbait)
by sensanaty 2y ago
First things first: The "article" (if it can be called one) is complete garbage and is nothing more than an advert for UpWork. That being said, the (clickbait) title resonates with me and from what I can observe with my colleagues at least.
It's clear to me from talking to the C-level in my company that they've been completely hoodwinked by Sam "Give me your biotelemetrics" Altman and others like him into thinking current day LLM technology is some sort of superhuman AI capable of replacing entire teams. The only thing they hear in their circles is "Infinite productivity and growth!!!" and salivating at the thought like an abused dog hearing a dinner bell that's never actually coming.
We build customer support software, and the CEO is adamant on "replacing 95% of human agents with an AI chatbot". So we've been building out this AI feature (Read: we're calling OpenAI's APIs with some custom prompts) and it's been laughable how fucking useless and unusable it is. The responses are full of lies & contradictions and never actually answers any queries with any kind of accuracy once you examine the output for longer than 2 seconds. But the C-level is loving it, despite it being a massive resource drain in every conceivable way, I suspect because now they can put "We have AI!" in their pitch to investors.
I dream of a massive solar storm that wipes out all of this crap off the planet for good, because I'm not sure if I can handle the incoming future full of spam, scams, lies automated at such an insane rate.
- jajko 2y agoI think it may be a self-fulfilling prophecy of sort - the more you struggle to make it reasonable, the more C-suite will think that their current IT teams are overpriced and useless, so AI consultants must be the way! Of course reality will eventually get back to this, but it may take surprising amount of time with usual service quality degradation and losing of customers.