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About 75,000 Deloitte staff have been given access to a generative artificial intelligence chatbot to create PowerPoint presentations and write emails and code in an attempt to boost productivity::About 75,000 staff to be given access to ‘PairD’ tool with advice to validate ‘accuracy and completeness’

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Exactly. With "AIs", people need to remember that coherence ≠ cogency.

For the common user, it's almost like that one quote that gets tossed around equating sufficiently-advanced technology and magic. The less-informed (those who truly believe the "AI" moniker that has been tacked on these things) read the output and it's astonishingly readable, so they assume that since the nerdy experts built this thing, it must be correct.

Then as you said, managers/execs don't make any effort to understand the lower echelon because capitalist Darwinism has caused them to chase numbers instead of, I dunno, connecting with the humans who actually keep their business running. LLMs are just their newest toy for slashing the shit out of wages on their P&L for the next several quarters.

Hah, I didn't mean to sound like a crazy person, and I definitely don't have a solution for capitalism, but that's just my frustrated two cents.