I am staying away from the AI debate (been there) but this typifies the type of nonsense that is promulgated by AI experts? https://lnkd.in/gMDibDeG I listened to this podcast on Australian ABC recently and was gobsmacked A HR expert (supposedly) said that AI would revolutionize business meetings! Why, because an employee could question an AI model (that was listening to the meeting 😗 ) as to what question they should ask to make them look good. Just think of that from either the viewpoint of the employee and/or their bosses! Let us assume that the AI gives the wrong question to ask, e.g. what is the capital of Egypt? Obviously, end of employee's contract - sheer stupidity? What if the question was even half right and the manager(s) quickly responded with, great point please explain how to implement your answer - employee becomes babbling wreck 🤔 What this HR expert(???) is saying is that the best way forward for employees is not to pay attention to what the meeting was saying but to try to deliberately deceive the meeting into believing they are smarter than they are - forget hard work and training , just get a computer to send in your homework Trust me, managers are smart and know the capabilities of their employees fairly well, sudden bursts of unconnected genius would undoubtedly invoke intensive questioning and testing. Can we please put a stop to this nonsense soon?
To be honest, it's probably worse than that. Wasn't there some sort of boast that it would let you be in 3 meetings at once? Oh, here we are: https://fortune.com/2024/06/23/microsoft-copilot-3-meetings-ai-productivity-workplace/ So basically genAI will let people pretend to be more productive, being "in" three meetings at once while producing the *value* of being in minus two of them. Probably meetings made up for the purpose of being counted. And adding another dozen yards to the extent of whichever desert is nearest the data centre while we're at it.
Keith S.
1mo
The Intensification of Trends from Rapid Changes in Technology Including AI Thank you Patrick McConnell for the interesting post which also highlights the role of rapid changes in technology, including #AI in all its forms, in intensifying trends. It is not so much the hype around #AI or other technologies, but the extent, the duration, the level, and the content within the hype which is being intensified. Whether it is #generativeai or #deepfakes the intensification of trends is seen within #socialmedia, politics, the media and reporting, the vocalisation of the pseudo experts, through to the nefarious and criminal. While this intensification of trends may be the result of markets within the economy, markets have a role in influencing and addressing this intensification, like the increase in lawsuits. Alongside this is the actions of business, government, and individual responsibilities in managing the intensifications trends from changes in technology including #AI. Implementing Artificial Intelligence – The Proven, Pragmatic, Practicalities, on a Risk-Based Approach with Assured Outcomes (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7104060042928160768/) may assist.
John Grabowski
1mo
The claims being made for AI seem to be anything people want to hear (or more accurately, anything the people making the claims think people want to hear). I'm surprised we haven't been told yet that AI has cured cancer. I currently ignore all claims about AI, because I haven't seen one yet that's completely true. And SV is in panic mode because they spend billions on what they view as tech's last great hope (after the underwhelming performance of 3D, VR, Google Glass, blockchain, "big data," you name it) and now they're scared, so they'll promise you anything, *anything*...just invest in our AI...PLEASE???
Dr Fred J.
1mo
It’s not even practically doable, all this is another nonsense
Jim Amos
1mo
It definitely helps people who are not good at their job appear smarter or more capable. But it doesn't seem to offer the same kind of lift for people who already know what they're doing.
Tim Hart
1mo
Sadly Pat there is going to more and more of this….
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1moGen AI (Large Language Models) have a role to play, but hallucinatory behavior and other odd, incorrect, and unexpected AI replies and output still requires more work must be done. I've said this before, but I believe Gen AI is to Google Scholar what Google was to Ask Jeeves. It is an evolutionary (not revolutionary) step in search engine technology and usefulness. As such it will become ubiquitous, background plumbing, and a tool set (rather than stand-alone products in its own right), and therefore not as lucrative as the claims being touted today. It has the same problem, however, as crypto mining. It is an energy hog and the AI chips are prohibitely expensive. Following exhaustive big tech R&D development of AI-based products and services I expect the semiconductor demand (largely Nvidia) to fall off rather than grow. That will be the result of costs exceeding benefits in products such as Copilot.