Amazon now requires some staff to show AI use to get promoted
Amazon now requires some staff to show AI use to get promoted
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Amazon now requires staff to show AI use to get promoted at Ring and some other units
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Jesus Christ, they really wanna force people to use AI.
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Hundreds of billions of dollars can’t be wrong!
No, seriously. They can’t. be. wrong.
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I can attest. I’m told all day long every day to use AI use AI use AI. It’s going to transform us / we must use it to survive / we won’t be left behind / these tools are changing the world / if we don’t use AI others will and they will eat our lunch. It’s so intense that performative AI use has begun: “look everyone I did an AI!!”
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Just like how when flight was invented people couldn't figure how to utilize it for a long time.
Or how when the cell phone or iphone came around no one could even find a good use case for a few decades.
Oh, people had thousands of uses for them lined up before the tech was even there? Hm. Surely we can brainstorm and force our way out of AI being a waste of money
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AI exists to steal what people made and sell it back to people without the skill to use. Not to bring about a moral panic, but people aren't learning how to do those things because "AI can do it" and with that, we end up with people not learning how to do it.
I'm trying to learn to code in python. I'm certainly not a coder by trade, but when I actually write code, I learn more than I do if I read what ChatGPT spits out.
Now if you excuse me, after ages of playing around with Turtle, amma try figure out how to get Python to work with json files so I can use it to make a train departures board for my local station.
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Help us replace you and we'll throw you a few extra bucks in the meantime.
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No; help us replace you or else we'll dock ya.
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"Please, we've bet the farm on this, at least pretend to think its useful"
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My workplace is also requiring AI usage to show in goals and evaluation reports.
I don't know if this fabricated push is just window dressing for stakeholders, but that kind of surprised me, because we're not exactly backed by VC or even in this "big tech" arms race.
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Every executive team hates one thing : paying labor. The entire AI sales pitch is "if you pay us, you can stop paying people."
Even if it's not possible, they all want the same management dream, no matter the industry, so they will all push towards it.
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Me too eventually. They're building an AI bot and I had to send in questions that I would Google. Why tf am I using a bot to search for what I need when I can find it faster? Lol
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I suppose if you wanted to prop up your most risky investment you might as well leverage your current employees/assets for that.
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You must be this incompetent to be promoted in this shithole company:
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Sometimes supply creates its own demand, and this is....... good? No more questions.
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One of us !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdxuWq1-5qk
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Snow Crash
Incredible book. Takes a chapter or two to get used to the writing style (2d person present tense if I recall).
Correction: 3rd person. Somehow the present tense throws a different reading rhythm that you have to get into first.
Wouldn't 2nd person be more like
The snippet above read like 3rd person present tense to me, which is still definitely unusual.
I thought this was a quote from the article until the end
Back when it was published in '92, it was obvious fiction. These days, not as much.