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Business, Economics, and Taxes: Eat Cereal for Dinner
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Deutsche Gopher Fan
Registered User
Maybe you should start self publishing disaster porn
Jimjamesak
Already insane, UAA making it worse
Because they genuinely believe the BS just like every other rube.
And the ones that don’t already have their escape plans prepared. A Swiss bank account, citizenship purchased, and a compound mean it’s not their problem.
St. Clown
Ideas Posted are Likely Not My Own
Did they donate to buy a pardon, uh, I mean a set-aside within the Big Beautiful BS Bill?
St. Clown
Ideas Posted are Likely Not My Own
Investors think that the companies in which THEY invested have used AI and don’t need the people anymore.
Funny thing is, I just took an AI class at work that boiled down to AI is a tool that can reduce labor for certain tasks, but don’t trust it implicitly- spend time reviewing the results.
Investors look at AI as the best labor panacea that’s ever panacea...ed.
aparch
Well-known member
AI is, IMO, at the point where search engines were in the mid '90s. Its a garbage in - garbage out system that the user should be aware of how to navigate.
Instead it's being thrust upon everyone at light speed with disregard.
Each iteration of Google Assistant I've had over the last five (?) years has followed the Microsoft approach of removing a fuck ton of features and slowly adding back a couple dozen every upgrade.
The original Google Assistant (Hey, Google!) was actually helpful and if it didn't recognize something, it prompted you to be clearer.
Then came the update "Okay, Google!" (I may have the pre-trigger word flip flopped) where some functionality was removed and in other areas it would force a command it thought you heard. "Okay Google, set a timer." "Okay, Calling Tammy." some functionality was broken on basic apps like Google Home because it wanted you to just talk to your smart home features instead of clicking in an app.
And now, they thrust the hallucinating Google Gemini on *everything* which has made the search feature absolute shit (that's also a different story about how its a full page before you actually get search results now). But it also broke features that were still hobbling along after the Okay/Hey Google assistants.
Tl:dr; Public AI is still absolute trash and will be for another decade.
Instead it's being thrust upon everyone at light speed with disregard.
Each iteration of Google Assistant I've had over the last five (?) years has followed the Microsoft approach of removing a fuck ton of features and slowly adding back a couple dozen every upgrade.
The original Google Assistant (Hey, Google!) was actually helpful and if it didn't recognize something, it prompted you to be clearer.
Then came the update "Okay, Google!" (I may have the pre-trigger word flip flopped) where some functionality was removed and in other areas it would force a command it thought you heard. "Okay Google, set a timer." "Okay, Calling Tammy." some functionality was broken on basic apps like Google Home because it wanted you to just talk to your smart home features instead of clicking in an app.
And now, they thrust the hallucinating Google Gemini on *everything* which has made the search feature absolute shit (that's also a different story about how its a full page before you actually get search results now). But it also broke features that were still hobbling along after the Okay/Hey Google assistants.
Tl:dr; Public AI is still absolute trash and will be for another decade.
aparch
Well-known member
While I thought I was a technology enthusiast, im slowly becoming a technology engineer.
(As I posted this joke to DX on Bluesky)
Tech Enthusiast: Every appliance in my home is connected through the Internet of Things!
Tech Engineer: I keep a loaded handgun next to my printer from 2004 in case it makes a funny sound.
(As I posted this joke to DX on Bluesky)
Tech Enthusiast: Every appliance in my home is connected through the Internet of Things!
Tech Engineer: I keep a loaded handgun next to my printer from 2004 in case it makes a funny sound.
state of hockey
He fixes the cable?
Then there’s me, who is increasingly more and more…
rufus
rock and roller
This is true. Company stocks always go up after they announce layoffs.
Companies gotta be 'lean and mean'
MichVandal
Well-known member
They seem also intent on bursting the power bubble. AI may suck and be worthless, but it's a pretty massive drain on the power system. Hardly what we need. AI is bringing TMI back on line.
It's *possible* that they quicken the development of new power sources, like SMRs, but AI centers are popping way faster than new power stations to power them. They also appear to be a massive burden to the local people, too.
FadeToBlack&Gold
Microlot Marxist
Would be more interested in seeing a breakdown. How many of those jobs are union vs wage slave? Or pay below average salaries with subpar benefits?
Deutsche Gopher Fan
Registered User
I’m telling ya, it’s brutal. I think these are way off (as I did under Biden)
aparch
Well-known member
When the unemployment number came in, the CNBC hosts started to discuss it, but kept bringing up something that made me think of those in your situation. They mentioned how there isn't a metric for the under-employed, those who have given up the job hunt or rolled off unemployment benefits. Which, has been a problem in reporting for as long as I can remember, but came to a head in the '08 crash.
FadeToBlack&Gold
Microlot Marxist
I have seen a bit of an uptick in placements among peers lately, but I'm sure it's still rough out there.
Deutsche Gopher Fan
Registered User
Yep. Advanced education is not admired currently
My other issue is, the two industries I work in are both shedding people like crazy because some people hate basic science
FadeToBlack&Gold
Microlot Marxist
After '08 it affected mainly blue collar employees - laid off factory workers who never got called back, and ended up either retiring on what they had, or taking wage slave retail jobs at chain stores like ACE/Home Depot/Lowes.
It's mainly in the last few years that white collar employees have started to feel the sting of this trend, too.