• Zink@programming.dev
      3·
      22 hours ago

      That seems like one of the more reasonable scenarios to expect “AI” to thrive, actually.

      You have dozens to thousands of people doing the actual work, then you have one CEO or owner that asks the AI to summarize what all the workers have been doing and communicating. It then presents them with a list of suggested decisions with some metrics tied to them like chance of success and Net Present Value (NPV).

      The AI wouldn’t even have to do a good job! It would just have to get things wrong or make up bullshit whole cloth as much as human middle managers, or maybe even less!

      I think this is a possiblity not because the AI will do a good job, but because the ONE thing that LLMs seem to be good at is mimicking what a random human might type, including humans who are often ignorant or wrong.

      • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
        1·
        15 hours ago

        Yup, it’ll screw up, but so do middle managers.

        Another use case is replace Hollywood movie execs with LLMs. Sure it will greenlight unoriginal movies, but it would be no real change over the current state of things.

  • JuliaSuraez@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 day ago

    That’s a sharp joke 😅 Sometimes sounding polished and confident gets mistaken for intelligence. Tone can be convincing, even when there’s not much depth behind it.

  • morphballganon@mtgzone.comEnglish
    551·
    2 days ago

    Corporate middle managers don’t use semicolons. They don’t even know when to use colons or apostrophes.

    They taught AI to talk like HR reps.

  • desiccated_event@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    13·
    2 days ago

    Is it possible that the way humanity has been dealing the with useless 1/3 of the population was to put them in middle-management positions? Consultants and the like?

    • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
      14·
      2 days ago

      Absolutely it is. Thats where we got the phrase “kicking them upstairs” from. Promote the useless guy to a position where they can’t actually do any damage.

      If AI succeeds in replacing a lot of those “positions”, we’re going to face a tsunami of idiots.

        • tias@discuss.tchncs.de
          10·
          1 day ago

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs

          Graeber states that more than half of societal work is pointless, both large parts of some jobs and five types of entirely pointless jobs:

          • Flunkies, who serve to make their superiors feel important, e.g., receptionists, administrative assistants, door attendants, store greeters;
          • Goons, who act to harm or deceive others on behalf of their employer, or to prevent other goons from doing so, e.g., lobbyists, corporate lawyers, telemarketers, public relations specialists;
          • Duct tapers, who temporarily fix problems that could be fixed permanently, e.g., programmers repairing shoddy code, airline desk staff who calm passengers with lost luggage;
          • Box tickers, who create the appearance that something useful is being done when it is not, e.g., survey administrators, in-house magazine journalists, corporate compliance officers, academic administration;[14]
          • Taskmasters, who create extra work for those who do not need it, e.g., middle management, leadership professionals.[1][4]
          • yermaw@sh.itjust.works
            5·
            1 day ago

            Remember when thr pandemic happened and we did a lock down and everyone had to stay home instead of going to work and basically nothing terrible happened?

            • tias@discuss.tchncs.de
              1·
              1 day ago

              That’s a somewhat odd statement coming from a stranger on the internet but I’m having one of those days where I’ll take anything that’s on offer. So thanks, I think I needed to hear that.

  • blujan@sopuli.xyz
    1·
    1 day ago

    I’m kind of a middle manager, and I get the hate. I like to think I’m different but I’m not entirely sure. At least my collaborators do appreciate me.