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[–] [email protected] 371 points 3 months ago (30 children)

I think AI has mostly been about luring investors into pumping up share prices rather than offering something of genuine value to consumers.

Some people are gonna lose a lot of other people's money over it.

[–] [email protected] 123 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Definitely. Many companies have implemented AI without thinking with 3 brain cells.

Great and useful implementation of AI exists, but it's like 1/100 right now in products.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 months ago (3 children)

My old company before they laid me off laid off our entire HR and Comms teams in exchange for ChatGPT Enterprise.

“We can just have an AI chatbot for HR and pay inquiries and ask Dall-e to create icons and other content”.

A friend who still works there told me they’re hiring a bunch of “prompt engineers” to improve the quality of the AI outputs haha

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

That's an even worse 'use case' than I could imagine.

HR should be one of the most protected fields against AI, because you actually need a human resource.

And "prompt engineer" is so stupid. The "job" is only necessary because the AI doesn't understand what you want to do well enough. The only productive guy you could hire would be a programmer or something, that could actually tinker with the AI.

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