Workers should learn AI skills and companies should use it because it's a "cognitive amplifier," claims Satya Nadella.

Workers should learn AI skills and companies should use it because it’s a “cognitive amplifier,” claims Satya Nadella.

in other words please help us, use our AI

  • kameecoding@lemmy.worldEnglish
    193·
    3 months ago

    I will try to have a balanced take here:

    The positives:

    • there are some uses for this “AI”
    • like an IDE it can help speed up the process of development especially for menial tasks that are important such as unit test coverage.
    • it can be useful to reword things to match the corpo slang that will make you puke if you need to use it.
    • it is useful as a sort of better google, like for things that are documented but reading the documentation makes your head hurt so you can ask it to dumb it down to get the core concept and go from there

    The negatives

    • the positives don’t justify the environmental externalities of all these AI companies
    • the positives don’t justify the pc hardware/silicone price hikes
    • shoehorning this into everything is capital R retarded.
    • AI is a fucking bubble keeping the Us economy inflated instead of letting it crash like it should have a while ago
    • other than a paid product like copilot there is simply very little commercially viable use-case for all this public cloud infrastructure other than targeting with you more ads, that you can’t block because it’s in the text output of it.

    Overall I wish the AI bubble burst already

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      They f’d up with electricity rates and hardware price hikes. They were getting away with it by not inconveniencing enough laymen.

      • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Very few laymen have noticed or give a shit about RAM prices. My young friend across the street and I are likely the only people on the block who know what RAM does, let alone are able to build a PC.

        Business purchasing is where we might see some backlash soon. I’ve bought all the IT goods, hardware and software, for my last two companies, and I’d be screaming.

        Boss: What the hell? Weren’t we getting these laptops for $1,200 last year?!

        • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          Consumers notice when their electronics double in price. The news will tell them it’s becaus of AI

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      Could not have written my exact take as closely as yours.

      Only thing I’d add is using it to screw around with personal photos. ChatGPT is cleaning up some 80s pics of my wife that were atrocious. I have rudimentary PhotoShop skills, but we’d never have these clean pics without AI. OTOH, I’d gladly drop that ability to reclaim all the negatives.

    • Schal330@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      3 months ago

      it is useful as a sort of better google, like for things that are documented but reading the documentation makes your head hurt so you can ask it to dumb it down to get the core concept and go from there

      I agree with this point so much. I’m probably a real thicko, and being able to use it to explain concepts in a different way or provide analogies has been so helpful for my learning.

      I hate the impact from use of AI, and I hope that we will see greater efficiencies in the near future so there is less resource consumption.