If you’re a moron, go nuts about AI. The mega-hype has done its damage pretty thoroughly. The cattle stampede sometimes known as AI investment has basically bust open the garbage bag. As expected, AI has spawned clones of ChatGPT and idiotic situations.
People are replacing employees with AI based on this very clunky first-generation tech they usually know very little about. Back-end AI people are still receiving their princely $15 an hour. Billions of dollars are waddling around getting in on the ground floor of what are basically chatbots glued on to very old tech in some cases.
Chat GPT is the benchmark. If you search ChatGPT on a news feed any day, you get a mix of business news, angst, and overreactions for and against AI. The sense of directionless confusion is unavoidable.
For example:
ChatGPT reported heading to bankruptcy. Huh? How? That was quick.
Use caution with medical writing when using ChatGPT. Does anyone see a no-brainer or so rattling around that headline?
The five best books on AI as recommended by ChatGPT. No sense of irony there.
Gen Z vs AI tales of woe. There’s a surprise. Systemic ignorance of anything involving actual work at the management level seems to have a few flaws.
My personal favorite – AI content writing. Everyone’s a writer, right? Most of them couldn’t sell sex in a jail, but that’s ad copywriting for you. Clueless to start with? Get AI to write your class action advertising suicide note and publish for your clients today!
Then there’s criminal AI, now available on the dark web for aspiring and proven idiots. How do you trust tech like that, sourced from there? A lot of it is based on ChatGPT cloning, but of course, there will be millions of these AIs if they have a market.
Get any sense of anything resembling objectivity? This is the tech version of QAnon, the sub-primes, and the dot com bubble all in one. People don’t even know if they’re being sold a ghost. Ever tried doing your accounts with a Ouija board? You might have to do just that for all anyone cares.
There’s no indication of any clear thinking on any level. The huge irony here is that scientific AI are extremely productive, highly efficient, and do their jobs well. They’re specialist AIs.
These AIs are not at all coincidentally customized and run by experts. People who know what they’re trying to achieve. …As distinct from the “I’ve never watched Star Trek and I can prove it” type of AI mythology which is what the market is actually buying.
Most of this inexcusable trash talk is based on an environment where hardly anyone has even been trained to use AI or work with it above the baseline level. It’s a class of tech that has talked itself into the new iPhone must-have buying frenzy.
A few pre-purchase questions here:
How do you integrate this expensive Golden Pig into a business system? What use is it? Why do you think you don’t need to manage it, too? You’re taking on a lot more work for yourself, not less.
Put it this way – How smart would it be to replace your CFO with a water cooler? You’ve now got a really good chance to do that.
A word of advice – Grow up.
Cost this chatty load of pretentious tech better than you’ve ever costed anything before. Believe nothing until you’ve seen it deliver what you want.
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