It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our tech columnist
I mean, I’m glad he said it but anyone who’s been paying attention already knows this. The entire country is collectively waiting for the bubble to burst as it is. You also have to separate things like Machine Learning from LLMs. Two totally different use cases. They’ve not even clearly articulated any end goals. Even NASA had ‘put a man on the moon’, not just ‘more space’. From what I can tell their goals boil down to either ‘make money’ or ‘make God’. The former works great for individuals but not a whole class of technology and the latter would surely not garner trillions in investment dollars. LLMs are certainly great productivity tools but what is their goal really for a CEO to be able to fire their entire staff so they can sit down at a computer and type in ‘make my business better’ and they think that’ll work?
I mean, I’m glad he said it but anyone who’s been paying attention already knows this. The entire country is collectively waiting for the bubble to burst as it is. You also have to separate things like Machine Learning from LLMs. Two totally different use cases. They’ve not even clearly articulated any end goals. Even NASA had ‘put a man on the moon’, not just ‘more space’. From what I can tell their goals boil down to either ‘make money’ or ‘make God’. The former works great for individuals but not a whole class of technology and the latter would surely not garner trillions in investment dollars. LLMs are certainly great productivity tools but what is their goal really for a CEO to be able to fire their entire staff so they can sit down at a computer and type in ‘make my business better’ and they think that’ll work?