• PlantJam@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    A salesman for an AI consulting company made the comment that we don’t expect perfection from humans, so why should we expect it from AI? He was smug about it, too, like it was his big gotcha. Joke’s on him, I’m the one that talked the bosses out of spending money with them.

    • RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      That’s such a bad argument too. The whole point of technology is to help perfect the output of humans. Why would we buy technology that is known to not do that

      • PlantJam@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 months

        “You can get pretty good results most of the time and save money on labor!” Not like our whole business model is focused on expertise and compliance or anything. Surely our clients won’t mind a few little mistakes here and there, as a treat.

        • RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2 months

          The neat part is that we can’t even claim that they’re little mistakes or that there’s few of them.

    • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      we don’t expect perfection from humans, so why should we expect it from AI?

      If we can’t expect better from an AI than from a human, why should we use the AI (other than so you don’t have to pay workers)?

      • RidcullyTheBrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 months

        I think there’s an important semantic difference between worse performance and correctness. Tools, like AI, can underperform when compared to humans and still be very useful and worth investing into, but that’s only as long as they perform correctly.

        • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2 months

          Tools, like AI, can underperform when compared to humans and still be very useful and worth investing into, but that’s only as long as they perform correctly.

          Yeah, the ‘but’ is the entire problem. In my experience, LLM chatbots are like if you made a 12yo a junior admin and fed them speed. Very quick to give you a confident answer, but wrong more often than not. The worst part is a lot of what I’m doing is coding, and it gets basic commands and syntax wrong

      • Bwaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 months

        Like there’s a big shortage of unemployed humans

  • falynns@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    Ah, the famous “Fox News” defense of claiming you’re an entertainment medium but you should totally trust it.

  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.orgEnglish
    2 months

    for entertainment purposes only, not serious use — firm pushing AI hard

    Reminds me of these Autopiloting cars LOL

    They, do it all by themselves, fully and autonomously and are pushed so hard as well, but you may not rely on them, never take them for serious.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      What regulatory capture of the FTC does to MFer.

      All this shit should be considered false advertising, at the very least.

  • bpinyon@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2 months

    Then why are they promoting it, in a pizza ad, as letting CoPilot handle the spreadsheets. Do they not trust their own product!?

    • Thales@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2 months

      My favorite part of that ad was that it was just “magic.”

      He plugged in existing numbers and it generated some charts and there’s a line out the door!

      Did AI renegotiate supplier agreements? Did it find a way to advertise in a new way? Ha, ha! Who’s to say, just use it why don’t cha??

    • reksas@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2 months

      its same mentality as drug supplier avoiding to get high on his own suppily.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish
    2 months

    Proposed revision: Do not use Copilot for business purposes.

  • lath@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    Trillion dollar investments, dishing out private nuclear power plants, redistributing water allocation nationwide, using it in every level of every structure of society and it’s just for entertainment.

    Anyone tell the politicians they bent over like hand worn muppets for a gag or do you think they already know and simply enjoy being treated for the fools that they are?

    • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      do you think they already know and simply enjoy being treated for the fools that they are?

      You’re assuming they aren’t willingly participating in screwing over the constituents to line their pockets or g to give lucrative contracts to their friends

  • JordanZ@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    Ah yes copilot in the app everybody thinks of for entertainment…notepad.

  • themurphy@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2 months

    It’s almost like it’s only a data harvesting tool. Why tf should they implement it everywhere for free?