Throwing one more story into the "Is AI going to replace all jobs?" folder.

[maccruiskeen@social.linux.pizza]

@evacide Corporate schizophrenia rules, apparently

Starbucks Ties Tech Bonuses to AI Usage as NomadGo Retires

Starbucks tied 25% of tech employee bonuses to AI usage this week, days after retiring its NomadGo inventory tool across 11,000 North American stores.

Oton Technology (otontechnology.com)

[funkylab@mastodon.social]

@evacide love how yahoo decides to "enhance" that story with an LLM that you can query (even if that would yield anything useful: why not do that upfront once, instead of doing it per-reader?? This is just cost-maximization, no matter the perceived benefits)

[huntingdon@mstdn.social]

@evacide

Imagine all the big company accountants working overtime to hide all the extra costs from adopting AI and then "retiring" it. Or at least not identify then as traceable to management's bad decisions about its use, and the hurried need to cut it off before it costs even more.

[mxchara@seattle.pink]

@evacide It's so disgusting how software companies have normalized this style of deployment: throw the shitty product out there with a loud blast of publicity, reap the benefits, and then ensure that any followup coverage is as muted as possible, so bad news can be kept obscure.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@wwahammy @evacide

because AI is magic and makes everything it touches better! 🤩

[pier@infosec.exchange]

@evacide Maybe just me but that article kinda reads like slop. I know humans make mistakes too but:

“If the system counted too much of the product, it wouldn’t send enough of a product a store was running low on. If the system counted too little, it wouldn’t ship enough of a needed product.”

Huh?

[benjaminklein@mastodon.nu]

@evacide they promised PhD level intelligence that is getting so smart that it might kill us all and it can't do an inventory count. This might be more embarrassing than the Metaverse.

[negative12dollarbill@techhub.social]

@evacide Counting: the one thing computers can definitely do. It's like someone invented a ladder with no rungs or a bicycle you can't steer. Future generations will mock us mercilessly.

[energisch_@troet.cafe]

@SarraceniaWilds Just my thought! @evacide

[energisch_@troet.cafe]

@pier or not a native speaker? @evacide

[energisch_@troet.cafe]

@zl2tod probably not @evacide

[pier@infosec.exchange]

@energisch_ @evacide It is possible that “Sasha Rogelberg” writing for Yahoo Finance is a non-native speaker, but seems unlikely. I think it’s much more likely that they are under extreme pressure, probably had most of their team laid off, and either chose to or were required to use an LLM to write the story. Not saying it’s a false story, seems like it’s probably true. But the slop makes it un-trustworthy. And I am so fucking tired of having to wonder about every article, “is this real or just completely made up?” Not exactly a hot take around here, I know.

[libroraptor@mastodon.nz]

@CptSuperlative @evacide That's what I thought, too. Surely they just need to amp up the obsequious pandering, Maybe hallucinate some strategic distractions and scapegoating, to make the managers happy again.

[vluciamonteirop@mastodon.social]

Future generations will be dumber than us.

[congusbongus@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@evacide

“It started off not particularly accurate and got less accurate over time,” Addison said.

This is almost beyond satire

Well, it started badly, it tailed off a little in the middle, and the less said about the end, the better. But, apart than that, excellent. - Blackadder

[energisch_@troet.cafe]

@pier of course but in the end my guess is it'll cost way more to use LLM for journalistic work. In assistanc, maybe, for rough translations. But not for the main Job.
@evacide

[aatch@mastodon.nz]

@evacide echoes Dell quietly dropping Bitcoin as a payment method.

[guy_bockamp@mastodon.social]

@evacide I really think you are getting this wrong.

[joris@hostux.social]

@evacide
But I still don't understand how it was supposed to work. Image recognition?

[d4lt0n@infosec.exchange]

@tk @evacide Not fast enough