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My company recently hired some "AI expert" to help us slop the place up a bit more. He gave a presentation where he had an expressionless, dead-eyed, generated version of himself straight from the bottom of the uncanny valley introduce him, talked about how much he loves AI "art," droned on about how AI helped him improve his golf game, then proceeded to give the most substanceless presentation for a good half hour rife with buzzwords and AI generated stock photos.
So anyway, employee morale is super high now that we had to sit through a presentation where a man making 3 times our salary demonstrated that his entire job is to tell the executives what they want to hear about AI every once in a while and play around with chatbots and AI image and video software the rest of the time.
At my job I'm so fucking tired of being told how to do my job with more AI. I use AI as I see fit to help with development, end of story. The manager of manual QA was told to use AI more, so what he figured out is that now we're going to have manual testers generating code that we'll have to look over I guess. Fun. Productive. Great.
We're getting constant pressure from the management to use LLMs which, in our work, have so far only shown negative ROI. And the time and effort spent on them has been displacing some ML projects we were working on that actually looked like they'd give us some concrete, positive results.
I'm really curious how "AI" helped him golf, other than providing basic advice he could have found just as easily anywhere else.
He's lucky his AI is not Mr Meeseeks from Rick & Morty.
No that's literally it. Could have gotten the same result by trolling around a golf forum for 10 or 15 minutes.
Something similar happened at my company, but it was a Google sales manager, she played a cringy slop video of her avatar introducing herself, talking about how she was so excited for the “new era of AI art”… I literally gagged.
I could triple my salary and scam CEOs out of their money at the same time? Damn... sign me up.
It requires a personality trait of being a douche that you should be proud not to have.
...I mean, it seems to be working out for him.