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’
Not sure how increasing the number of emails everyone has to read and PowerPoint presentations everyone has to sit through will boost productivity. 🙄
That’s the trick, you don’t read them.
Person A creates an email with AI, attaches a ppt created with AI, and send it to person B.
Person B gets AI to summarise the email and ppt, and create a response.
Repeat.
It’s an ouroboros of shit.
The game of telephone has itself become mutated. I can’t tell if that’s funny or sad.
I know you’re (partially) joking but, the way I’ve seen my coworkers swoon over chatgpt for code snippets, I’d be shocked if thousands don’t already use it for summarizing emails.
Yeah, it’s really not good, especially because the people I’ve seen use this stuff the most are the ones who would rarely ever question the quality of the work it does or bother to make sure it’s accurate.
And because managers and business owners see “productivity” increase, they expect that that’s the new standard, and AI will essentially just have made doing quality work harder for everyone involved.
Most of the Deloitte consultants I’ve dealt with are already bots, whether or not they are wearing a power suit.
So it sounds like that company has a whole lot of dead weight that they either need to convince to care about the company’s success, or just replace them with AI.
Why do I get the feeling millions of people are going to start losing their jobs over this in the next few years?
Why do I get the feeling millions of people are going to start losing their jobs over this in the next few years?
Because that’s what’s going to happen.
I don’t think they’ll be directly replaced with AI though. Instead the company they work for will go bankrupt because they can’t compete with competitors who figure out how to improve productivity using AI.
AI equivalent of training your Offshore replacements
Exactly, this makes me very anxious. Feeling that we’re just cutting the branch we are sit on …
“Please send an email to IT explaining why our server is offline”
IT responds “Why are you attempting to put egg salad in your server?”
Yeah this is a great plan to ‘boost’ productivity…
Then they will have bots to read emails and presentations and at the end it will be bots emailing other bots and bots presenting to each other. Bots all the way down.
I’m not surprised. I’m sure there are many companies out there who are beginning to use generative AI
