“On Generative AI and Satisficing - by Dave Karpf”
There is not $100 billion+ of revenues to be found in Clippy-but-awesome.
I share Dave’s scepticism about AI’s productivity benefit
@baldur For me it’s “productivity but at what human cost”. I’m not personally a fan of pushing for productivity - instead just going with my own flow - but it’s worrying how much actual real “thinking” it will take away from people. I can see a future where people are no longer be able to function without it (obviously you can detox from that). That’s another topic. Like reading maps instead of using your phone and GPS 😁
@vincent Yeah, I honestly think it’s more likely that AI will be used to replace services, goods, and media with degraded versions of themselves that have a marginally higher profit margin, and that the productivity angle will slowly fade away.
@vincent It’ll be all “make this AI output passable” churn and the notion that companies cared about making their workers more productive will turn out to be a fantasy.
But, I have been accused of pessimism in the past 🙂
@vincent @baldur
"Just because I’m paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not following me!"
So many middle manager's minds see the world as a collection of fungible chits, to them ‘% lies' in a 'story‘ is the same thing as ’% theft' in 'cost of goods sold'. All shuffled around to end up with attractive growth rate or some other circus metric. And it should come as no surprise that these same ark-b ticket holders keep putting the same bullshit into a bigger box and then call it 'concentrated'.