There's a certain level of risk aversion with these decisions though. One of the justification of salaries for managers who generally don't do shit is they take "responsibility". Honestly even if AI was performing at or above human level, a lot of briefs would have to be done by someone you could fire anyway.

And as much as next quarter performance is all they care about, there are still some survival instincts left. My last company put a ban on using genAI for all client facing activities because a sales guy almost presented a deck with client is going to instantly walk out levels of wrong information in it.

They'll fire everyone and love the short term profit boost but within a year realize it's fucking up their production processes. But they'll be so hooked on all that money saving that they'll pull some sneaky ways of rehiring everyone buy for less money and benefits.

I say "LLM" or "treat printer" because fuck the marketing word and fuck the bazinga cultists that keep expecting a fully sapient but also unconditionally adoring mommy bangmaid just like in the cyberpunkerino treats any day now.

I recall my AI class discussed a bunch of different things that people call AI that don't come anywhere near "replacement human". For instance, the AI in red alert 2 has some basic rules about buildings and gathering a certain number of units and send them the players way.

Obviously, RA2s "AI" isn't being used for labour discipline and llms are massively overhyped but I think getting hung up on the word is... idk, kinda a waste of time (as I feel like a lot of this thread is)

Continuing to look under LLM rocks of varying size and shininess in search of the solve-every-problem robot god of the future

I sometimes use it to bypass corporate copyright on industrial standards. Kinda eh about it and I have to double check everything. What a world we've built >.>

Why did you have to attack me like that?

I love how all the corporate bootlickers for over three years now have just assumed some real breakthrough in emergent general intelligence took place and now humanity can build rudimentary consciousness

"AI" as it exists right now is a triumph... in marketing.

The primary driver of techbro profitability is hopes and dreams. They want a holo waifu to be their mommy bangmaid and to have godlike powers but also unconditionally love and serve them, and they want to manifest that by bullshitting about it on the internet and selling the lie.

But if enough rain forest is burned and enough waste carbon is dumped into the air, those predictive algorithms are that much closer to understanding everything!

Hell yeah, smart machine? That's gonna cost a premium. Oh, and because these machines are so sophisticated, you'll need a higher tier support contract, that's another premium... I mean it's not like you have skilled technicians on staff anymore, they all retired and all your new guys just know how to press "play," since we made the machines so easy to use... you're not fixing anything yourself anymore.

Back to your support contract, now we have the Bronze tier which gets you one of our field techs out there within 48 hours, but if your business can't handle that kind of downtime we could upgrade you to Silver or Gold...

(You should be able to say that word on posts about australians, fr.)