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Because it’s not a hill worth dying on. They just want us to use a piece of software, they’re not asking me to kill a basket full of kittens.

This is actually an argument I was having about two hours ago with my managers. They want to replace a bunch of low level workers with AI, and have the remaining low level workers use the AI to do the job of the lost workers. Their justification for this is that the engineers have been using AI for over a year now and performance has improved, (I don’t actually know if performance has improved, but they say it has).

And what you said was basically my point, sure performance improves when engineers use AI because the people using the AI, are engineers, they can tell when the AI has given them something worth working with, and they can tell when it hasn’t. The low level workers can’t do that, I had an argument with one of them this morning because they kept insisting that the computer tower was a CPU, and kept calling it that. How is someone like that going to be able to tell if the AI has given them good output or not?

Is the AI is being used what’s the Project Manager for?

The company are the ones that mandate that we use the dam thing. They are actually threatening to right people up if they don’t use it enough but then not specifying what enough means. So now it’s getting used for everything.

Enjoy your overly verbose email, perhaps you should get AI to summarize it. That way, we both get to use it, yay.

I love that you’re giving everyone champagne at lunchtime. The rest of the day is going to have negative productivity.

That’s because people just let AI write an email and then just send it. Usually require some massaging to turn it into something that looks moderately human.

I’m not worried about AI launching nukes and destroying the world. I’m worried about idiot bosses trying to replace all human employees with AI and firing everyone. Of course it won’t work but what does that matter, they’ll destroyed the economy by the time they work that out.

Microsoft don’t have a distribution platform for PC games, even when they did no one used it. So they will only be able to introduce this in games that they are the publisher for, which is actually not that many games.

I’m very sure steam already prohibits in-game advertising. So Microsoft would have to distribute these games themselves and the moment that any publisher decides to go their own route they immediately decrease their revenue, even if nothing else has changed.

What’s amazing is they are proposing to introduce such a scheme in the product that people aren’t forced to use.

I just won’t play those games. End of problem.

Like saying you don’t need to be a structural engineer to demolish a skyscraper. You need to be pretty well versed in computer science to be able to hack a system to any reasonable extent. If you just go ham at it and just press random buttons nothing is going to happen / you’re going to be detected.

Hackers write programmes all of the time.

I’m sure my electrician wanted painting cash for some other reason, he was definitely going to pay his taxes.

That’s the most AI written article I think I’ve ever seen. Isn’t really a story here it’s just a fishing boat pulled a drone out of the water probably after it would “shot down”. But the AI goes on and on repeating the same basic point again and again without making any real headway.

Isn’t it necessary in the production of plastic? Presumably with still need it for that.

Apparently now include silicon dioxide. An odd choice that I don’t think is going to lead to increased adoption but you do you.

The Covenant might be religious fanatics but they’re actually capable of working with other religious fanatics, in mutual cooperation.

MAGAs are more like Species 8472, utterly hostile to anything that doesn’t conform to their very narrow and ill informed worldview, even to the point of being hostile to potential allies, thus alienating them.