Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech.

[nixcraft@mastodon.social]

Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech. Revenue per worker is rising for the Mag 7 but is flat for the S&P 493. And there are still no signs of AI boosting productivity growth https://www.apollo.com/wealth/insights-news/insights/daily-spark/no-signs-of-ai-payoff-outside-the-tech-sector i can’t wait to see how this all goes down between wars, inflation, job losses and AI. Tiny percentage of humans always have unleashed hell on the rest of us out of greed

[maya@gs.lexinova.eu]

@nixCraft the only way AI helped it's in code analisys, where it spot thing that requiere a twisted way of thinking to make it work.

And even if we plug 100% of all dev on this for this purpose they are still hundred of billion in the water "cost" wise.

[budududuroiu@hachyderm.io]

@nixCraft since when do we care about financial payoff solely? If a worker can do the same job in less time, we should use that to argue for 4 day work weeks, globally.

Progressives are really shooting themselves in the foot here.

[oldcoder@dansu.org]

out of greed
indeed
greed is the seed

it isn’t even #AI, geez
call it by another name, please
it can be useful, very
but of the hype be wary

I say that there will be a collapse
it doesn’t take more than one synapse
to realize that this isn’t a new era
at the same time, no need for despair-a

it’s a tool ️
a potential mule
not a god
nor Emperor Zod

the billionaire bullsh*t has got to go
but it isn’t nothing but terror and woe
I happen to like having lakes and rivers
that issue imbues one with shivers

but when the issue is gone
there will be a new dawn
LinkedIn “On AI we fawn”
Fediverse “AI is murder,
to destroy it we must gird-er”

both viewpoints have their place
it isn’t the end of the human race
for now, I count on toes and fingers
the RAM-pocalypse needs to stop
but it lingers

the end will come
then there will be some
sanity
to replace the inanity 🤪

dot-com has been forgotten
yes, the AI mania is misbegotten
let’s the rubbish get past quick
use the parts that are going to stick

in this debate, homeless I am
both sides might grind me into jam 🫙
but I think that to call a spade a spade ️
isn’t a tirade

let’s the billionaires eat for dinner 🥩
a sensible thought doesn’t make one a sinner
the ethical issues let’s settle
print the rules in metal
to move forward is a thrill
high is likely to be the bill
for multiple reasons society is trucked
we rank below Donald Ducked

I like rivers. billionaires need to be jailed.
I won’t let a Markov Chain
emperor be hailed
but at the price of ridicule refrain
I’ll play the fool
let the ridicule run down the drain

let’s wait and see
what arises
subsequent to the surprises
the crash will bring
the end result is the thing

Source: An Old Coder who mortality is facing, no LLM did this; the thought be erasing.

#codersongs #rhymes

[dmarti@federate.social]

@nixCraft And revenue/worker is sus as a metric anyway—they can easily juice it by doing unsustainable layoff frenzies and lowering the denominator

[pxmind@social.linux.pizza]

@nixCraft For the average person, AI is a commodity, a comfortable way to google, and a tool to quickly build average content with questionable precision. As a result, what we get is lazier individuals, and the internet bloated with mediocre articles, which feed random answers. Productivity is not higher, because we end up using the spare time for other stuff, and the worst part is the loss in content quality, not to mention the risk to lose our jobs

[dianea@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@nixCraft

a friend told me today that her boss required her to use AI for her job, an engineer's job, a job that can kill people. AI does not hold an engineering license, AI does not take depositions, sit in the courtrooms, or go to prison when people die, But her boss uses AI as their AI fueled investors are on the AI hypewagon.

[uvok@woof.tech]

@nixCraft Elon Musk & co: "... What do you mean, 'outside of tech'?"

/s

#shitpost

[ivichoc@mastodon.online]

@nixCraft "Tiny percentage of humans always have unleashed hell and the overwhelming majority of us supported them out of greed" Here, I fixed it for you. You're welcome.
The main problem is the majority of folks, thinking they can have a slice of the cake somehow. (We must organize our neighborhoods to small,resilient communities based on mutual help, self sufficient, interconnected, supportive to each other. Nothing else will work.)

[connynasch@mastodon.social]

@uvok he has a sick idea of the future - I watched some of the video on him 🤮 Goes right back to his apartheid supporting father, replacing humans.. @nixCraft

[gimulnautti@mastodon.green]

@nixCraft ’Engineer’s Disease’, or falsely assuming your expertise in your narrow field allows you to make predictions about the rest of the world.