ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Vaughan was surprised to find it was often the technical staff, not marketing or sales, who dug in their heels. They were the “most resistant,” he said, voicing various concerns about what the AI couldn’t do, rather than focusing on what it could. The marketing and salespeople were enthused by the possibilities of working with these new tools, he added.
So the people that had an actual idea of what the implications of using it might be weren’t on board? Huh. Weird.
Like the guy with the carbon fiber submarine. Every engineer told him it couldn’t be done, so he kept firing them until he had a staff of young, inexperienced engineers who would do what they were told, and just collect their paychecks.
Now their boss is dead, and there are no more paychecks.
Well at least that problem fixed itself.
I wished more of society’s problems were solved that way, with the guy responsible for such a stupid concept paying the ultimate price for his arrogance.
Sales and marketing is often mostly bullshitting anyway. It also has a lot less risk and constraint associated to generated text having issues. Not surprised they were more on board. The tool is more fitting for those use cases anyway.
They’re also the people who build their career on never stirring the pot so they can make their clients feel special. They’re built to be sycophants and their jobs are, and this isn’t even necessarily a bad thing, a little more nebulous which means they’d feel the effects much less strongly.
“Pointlessly waffling for a living just got so much easier!”
Marketing people are known for beliving their own lies.
Seeing these kinds of people harness AI is so embarrassing. They feel empowered while doing some of the whackest stuff. In the end, it is still technical style work snd they are still awful at it.
rather than focusing on what it could
When you’re driving a car down the ski jumping ramp.
abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
"All the engineers said my “screen door on a submarine” was “stupid” and would “sink the ship”, so I fired them and hired new engineers!"
greasewizard@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
I mean this is the exact line of thinking turned an idiot CEO into a paste at the bottom of the ocean
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
thank you mighty wizard for casting dopamine.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I can not read the word “cast” in any form without remembering this:
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MangoCats@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
There’s a small difference, the imploded CEO was “boldly going where no man had gone before, on such an accelerated timetable and tight budget” - the screen door guy was a couple of orders of magnitude more foolish.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I told AI to build me a submarine out of titanium.
OshagHennessey@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Titanic sub was made from carbon fiber. Titanium is what he should have used.
AbidanYre@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Damnit, I knew that too. I stopped skimming too early in the Wiki paragraph.