They put new AI controls on our traffic lights. Cost the city a fuck ton more money than fixing our dilapidated public pool. Now no one tries to turn left at a light. They don't activate. We threw out a perfectly good timer no one was complaining about.
But no one from silicone valley is lobbing cities to buy pool equipment, I guess.
I read a pretty convincing article title and subheading implying that the best use for so called "AI" would be to replace all corporate CEOs with it.
I didn't read the article but given how I've seen most CEOs behave it would probably be trivial to automate their behavior. Pursue short term profit boosts with no eye to the long term, cut workers and/or pay and/or benefits at every opportunity, attempt to deny unionization to the employees, tell the board and shareholders that everything is great, tell the employees that everything sucks, ...
Have you seen the film Dark Star? Bomb number 20 gets stuck in the release bay with the detonation countdown still running, so they have to spacewalk out and convince the AI not to explode.
This sort of thing always reminds me of the classic Louis CK bit from Conan O'Brien: Everything is amazing and nobody is happy.
I like using AI to summarize meetings
That's the end user! /s
All those middle managers will be displaced.
