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Former Microsoft VP says Microsoft missed the AI wave like the internet and mobile, as Copilot scales back in Windows 11 (www.windowslatest.com)
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[–] 30 points 5 months ago (8 children)

The " AI Wave" is just a fiction. The whole idea is just an attempt to get investments for companies that don't and cant really produce any value. I've tried many of these "AI" tools and none of them can really do anything useful.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    From what I've seen programmers are using Claude a lot. It may still cause problems in the medium to long term by squeezing out junior developers or atrophying the skills of senior developers, but in the meantime it is speeding up production of code.

    It's also making scams a lot easier by simulating real human communication, up to and including video chat.

    I'm not sure what will cool down the hype. It's almost exclusively driven by c-suite morons who find AI very useful for writing unclear emails and inaccurate notes. The sort of things they'd do themselves before. Even programmer who adopt it are mostly quietly muddling along.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago* (6 children)

    There are many fields that are kind of forcing workers to use AI. Then their logic is: well, if you use AI, then I'll either cut your wages or hire cheaper workers.

    That being said, do you really (and by “you” I mean all the lurkers as well) think this whole thing will backfire in the long run? I only see companies using more and more AI and being fine with laying off people and rehiring people who are 25% cheaper.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    Companies' pretense that they don't need skilled workers is a bluff move in the struggle between labor and capital. It is an attempt to devalue workers and lower their wages. The bluff cant be sustained for long.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Companies seek to monopolise skill and knowledge within these AI and encourage people to know nothing and pay them for skills/knowledge instead. This can only end poorly when it becomes uneconomical to provide this service to consumers but has also made those consumers devoid of skills/knowledge.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Relying on a chatbot to do work for you that isn't bulk writing or giving your customers the runaround is a recipe for disaster. Now, I'll grant you that this is a very advanced chatbot, but just because it can fool the average CEO, doesn't mean it can do much of anything truly useful.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    That being said, do you really (and by “you” I mean all the lurkers as well) think this whole thing will backfire in the long run?

    It's backfiring now by deleting databases, overwriting important configuration files, and leaving sensitive information in the wild.

    Now, I agree, AI isn't going away: Like any other kind of massive fuck-up, by the time the current crop of suckers learn their lessons, there'll be a new crop ready to make the same mistakes again.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Without some major breakthrough that actually results in real artificial intelligence, I don't see how any of this is sustainable long term. Things feel just like they did back in 2007 when everyone and their mom was buying a house to flip using an adjustable rate mortgage and you'd be stupid not to join them.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    i do think its mostly about an excuse for workforce reduction rather than pull some other bullshit excuse from their ass they can use this one,for a time at least.

    An example is here in Australia our biggest bank, CBA, crowed they reduced their workforce and saved a bunch from AI, turned out they just literally offshored and hired in India

    Eventually customers will get super frustrated with telling the chatbot that this didn't solve the problem.

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