"AI" cynicism of the morning
2024-07-02 18:08:38.169261+02 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Goldman Sachs: Gen AI: too much spend, too little benefit? Turns out $50B for $3B in revenue might not be a great trade-off.
Business Insider: Goldman Sachs says the return on investment for AI might be disappointing
Via @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange who points out that, among other things:
Experienced developers using Copilot are 20% less productive.
Which I think we knew, we also know that Copilot generated code creates technical debt. And that training costs are going up faster than capability increases.
RT mhoye @mhoye@mastodon.social
An AI thing I'm watching play out at another org:
1: Expert A, with a deep understanding of a nuanced and difficult problem answers a question they've been given, offering several options.
2: Director B, recipient, uses an AI to summarize it and then runs it up to leadership saying, "A says this." That generated summary is subtly and very wrong.
3: A is now being held responsible for plans made based on B's AI-generated and very wrong rewriting of his recommendations.
Fun times.
To which Amelia Bellamy-Royds @AmeliaBR@front-end.social replied:
@mhoye New addendum to "A computer can never be held accountable, so a computer should never make a management decision":
Managers who think their job can be replaced by a computer, and who will do anything to avoid being held to account, they should never make a management decision, either.
Edit, just because I needed a place to hang it 'cause I don't think it's actually worth following, but it's nice to have: Vox: What, if anything, is AI search good for? (tl;dr: nobody knows)