"We're nowhere near the point where an AI can do your job, but we're well past the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that fails at doing your job." (Pluralistic) - Technology - Mbin
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  • @EldritchEnglish
    13•11 months ago

    The real kicker here is. The group most able to currently be replaced and least likely to be replaced is management.

    • @DandomRudeEnglish
      2•11 months ago

      That’s absolutely right. But unfortunately AI can’t sit in pointless meetings and pretend to know what it’s doing without being asked. So it can’t really do what many Managers do atm.

  • deaf_fishEnglish
    3•11 months ago

    My boss was so excited when we got a private company instance of chatGPT that we could use. He was encouraging everyone to find ways to use it.

  • OptionalEnglish
    1•11 months ago

    The modern Mechanical Turk – a division of Amazon that employs low-waged “clickworkers,” many of them overseas – modernizes the dumbwaiter by hiding low-waged workforces behind a veneer of automation. The MTurk is an abstract “cloud” of human intelligence (the tasks MTurks perform are called “HITs,” which stands for “Human Intelligence Tasks”).

    This is such a truism that techies in India joke that “AI” stands for “absent Indians.” Or, to use Jathan Sadowski’s wonderful term: “Potemkin AI”:

    Cripes.