Disclaimer: I don’t have any understanding when it comes to finance/economics other than what I’ve experienced/read. However, it does seem hard to argue the fact that economics/finance are so divorced from reality that they ought to be viewed the same as the national debt.
I’m sure there are others in the same boat, but I’m still having trouble getting past the absurdity and ominous nature of everything happening in the corporate world right now. Almost every single conversation is boiled down to “just ask Claude” and it’s being used to slow down existing workflows to a comical degree. Who knows maybe this will self-correct over time, but it’s certainly a choice at the moment.
I’m not trying to be a doomer I’m really not, but these people live in a different reality than you and I. I used to listen to Ed Zitron’s podcast and tuned in to any number of his appearances on other shows to sort of shield myself from all the noise that encompasses this age of tech, but I’m slowly coming to the realization that the economics/financial picture of the situation seems entirely inconsequential. I’m hoping this is just my lack of knowledge when it comes to finance/econ, but fuck if I know. Maybe this post will make me look like a dumbass in a year or so (I hope it does).
I feel like all of us in corporate are all assets in a bet from the most evil people on the planet to see if they will be able to replace huge swaths of the population with a “good enough” solution that will slowly be de-valued and phased out of the workforce akin to IT jobs in the early/mid 2010s.
This shit really blows and I feel like LLM companies are going to come out on top, primarily because Claude has proven that it can generate passable output at lightning speed and that is more than enough to please C suites.
I actually know someone like this who had a medical issue, asked ChatGPT about it, concluded it was the solution to their ailment, and now swears by it
Same. A guy I know was all like “chatgpt fixed my lifelong back problems”. Then proceeded to tell me what exercises it told him to do and turns out most were the same ones I told him to do like ten years ago when I was his trainer. But he never really listened to me, because I am woman and obviously have no idea what I’m talking about.
Anyway, the “ai” told him to overdo it and do way too monotonous stuff so he did, and now his back is worse than it’s ever been.
I hadn’t even considered the effect prolific use of LLMs for literally everything would have on mansplaining. I mean why trust a woman on any subject you don’t know anything about when you can just ask ChatGPT instead.
I’ve thought about the way these are mansplaining machines a lot and how there would be space for some great feminist analysis of expertise, the way these things are so bro-coded. The impact that would have on society. It probably exists, but haven’t seen it.
It was wild realizing that a man took basically the same advice I had tried to give, but without the nuance, which would be needed to not fuck themselves up with it, when it came from a machine. This person is a tech bro who tends to think humans make mistakes, machines don’t. Big believer in robotic driving.
I heard a person saying their AI agent did this. I still don’t get what the fuck AI agents are. Is it making up a guy for the yes-man machine to pretend to be?
An “ai agent” is when you give the hallucination machine direct access to tools so they can do stuff autonomously. Like if you were to set it up so you can say “buy some socks” and it just goes on amazon and finds whatever sounds like socks and buys it for you. and if it decides that you need $8000 worth of socks, so be it
We had things that could do that well before these stupid chatbots. And they’d ask for confirmation before doing the thing. I guess people are just obsessed with the sci fi idea of “computer, resolve this mundane errand”.
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