Futurism: Majority of
CEOs Alarmed as AI Delivers No Financial Returns.
According to a recent survey by professional services network PwC, more than half of the
4,454 CEO respondents said “their companies aren’t yet seeing a financial return from
investments in AI.”
That article is a cynical take on Business Chief: Is ROI on AI Investment the CEO's
Biggest Challenge? which takes the "if flushing money down the toilet isn't giving you a
return you're not flushing enough of it, or you're doing it wrong" tack.
The punctures associated with COVID, Pneumonia, Flu, and MMR vaccines acquired.
Tomorrow is gonna suck.
Lest you think I'm all anti-LLM all the time, I'm pondering <antirez> Don't fall into the anti-AI hype
And... I've been led astray by Google Gemini, and had it delete data. I'm feeling very much
like my coworker who's using Claude Code is introducing a lot of subtle regressions, but
it's hard to really point my finger at it. I totally get the absolutists, but, you know, I
live in the United States, I definitely have some malleable ethics. And I know that when I
rely on LLMs I not only don't learn anything, I'm misinformed, and most of the business
processes in which "AI" is introduced are there to make life worse for the
customer/consumer.
And, of course, it's obviously a bubble that's going to have tremendous economic impact on
us all when it pops.
So I'm trying to navigate all of this...
Yeah, haven't lived there since 1986...
https://mydialect.us/quiz-standard.html
From the summary:
What gave you away
Answers that point most strongly to Massachusetts.
How do you pronounce Mary/merry/marry?
all 3 are different
flourish[ʌ] as in "sun" ("fluh-rish")
the first vowel in "Florida"
[ɒ] as in "saw" ("flaw-ri-da")
What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
sunshower
Alt text: A map of the US with the northeastern US, starting from New York City and the
Hudson Valley to the northeast, in red (legend: "Most Like You"), a big blue swatch up the
biddle of the country for "least like you", with hints of orange along the eastern
seaboard and central California coast.
Arthur Charpentier: Vibe Coding and the Next Silent Cyber Risk
For casualty insurers, this loss of visibility turns a software defect into a provenance
problem. After a loss, the insured may need to show who requested the change, which model
or tool generated it, what modifications and dependencies were introduced, what tests were
run, who approved deployment, and what monitoring followed. If that chain cannot be
reconstructed, the insurer must assess causation and liability without a reliable
evidentiary record.
