Submitted 5 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.ft.com/content/38ab8068-9f09-4104-859d-111aa1dc47ad
About 75,000 Deloitte staff have been given access to a generative artificial intelligence chatbot to create PowerPoint presentations and write emails and code in an attempt to boost productivity::About 75,000 staff to be given access to ‘PairD’ tool with advice to validate ‘accuracy and completeness’
Most of the Deloitte consultants I’ve dealt with are already bots, whether or not they are wearing a power suit.
AI equivalent of training your Offshore replacements
Exactly, this makes me very anxious. Feeling that we’re just cutting the branch we are sit on …
I really hope this goes through, because the pile of dogshit they sold my municipal government can’t fairly be called code.
It’s astonishing. I will never ever deal with that company if I have the opportunity in the future because of how utterly incompetent they were creating a “microservices architecture” for us which is in effect a series of AWS Lambdas running random Python that do not coordinate, suffer from race conditions, and in many places do not do the thing in the first place.
It’s the second worst code I’ve ever seen. The first was home grown at another public sector job.
The cost for this shit that could have been replaced by a simple Flask app? Or even a well structured, in-lined Python script? $1.5 million. Ongoing costs in the hundreds of thousands per year.
This should be a $20-50/month EC2 instance.
Absolute garbage.
No, I am not underestimating the complexity requirements nor the communication overhead/competing stakeholder interests and all other manner of externalities.
Deloitte belongs in the dust heap.
“Please send an email to IT explaining why our server is offline”
IT responds “Why are you attempting to put egg salad in your server?”
Yeah this is a great plan to ‘boost’ productivity…
The new business model will be to hire humans to do the work to create enough data until the job can be automated by another facet of the AI.
Then they will have bots to read emails and presentations and at the end it will be bots emailing other bots and bots presenting to each other. Bots all the way down.
I’m not surprised. I’m sure there are many companies out there who are beginning to use generative AI
reddig33@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Not sure how increasing the number of emails everyone has to read and PowerPoint presentations everyone has to sit through will boost productivity. 🙄
HeavyDogFeet@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s the trick, you don’t read them.
Person A creates an email with AI, attaches a ppt created with AI, and send it to person B.
Person B gets AI to summarise the email and ppt, and create a response.
Repeat.
It’s an ouroboros of shit.
ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The game of telephone has itself become mutated. I can’t tell if that’s funny or sad.
I know you’re (partially) joking but, the way I’ve seen my coworkers swoon over chatgpt for code snippets, I’d be shocked if thousands don’t already use it for summarizing emails.
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Job applications these days.
Ai writes the cover letter and resume.
Ai reviews it and confirms/rejects.