News.(tm) a featured Microsoft product. Unbiased? Windows ME was a great product. Buy more Vista. I'll be here all week. (*Note: this post was NOT written by AI, and a spell checker is not AI. Its not even I. )
Well, they claim to be written by a human. I would not be surprised at all if someone working for a dubious online news site wrote these articles with ChatGPT and Microsoft's curator AI happily picked them up.
Many people on this site continue to argue that AI has zero effect on jobs.
From the article: “ But in recent years Microsoft has laid off editors, some of whom were told they were being replaced by “automation,” what they understand to be AI.”
So, there, unambiguous and with a negative overall impact. What more do you want as a proof that not only is “AI” killing jobs, the replacement is measurably worse
They came for the curators and I stayed quiet because I was better than the curators
…and anyway that’s not a real job, anyone can do it obviously if it’s so easy to automate
I’m sure they can just find another job, and besides they should have been working on getting out of that job given that they saw the writing on the wall. I mean that’s what I did, I was able to switch careers into coding and there’s no reason that everyone else on the planet couldn’t do that
So really it’s their fault and they should have planned for this
AndrewKemendo was being sarcastic and their comments about it being “their fault” was a criticism of an assumed attitude held by people making the decisions to fire the curators and editors and replace them with AI. I think AndrewKemendo thought that you missed the point.
> Many people on this site continue to argue that AI has zero effect on jobs.
My neighbour works for a large law firm that had decided to eliminate a number of junior positions because ChatGPT is significantly cheaper and "good enough" even if it makes numerous factual errors.
Interesting that they lead with Joe Biden falling asleep (for which there's video proof) and lump it in with internet boomer schizo talking points. Feels like CNN might be trying to prime the pump a little.
Its even strange that they have 200k employees and yet they couldn't even have like 20 people on this site to proof read it? And they expect millions of people to read it. MS leadership keeps making bizarre decisions.
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[ 2.3 ms ] story [ 106 ms ] threadSeems like procedural text generators arent that far worse from their human “news”writing counterparts.
I think it's more bizarre that these kind of stories are actually written by human.
From the article: “ But in recent years Microsoft has laid off editors, some of whom were told they were being replaced by “automation,” what they understand to be AI.”
So, there, unambiguous and with a negative overall impact. What more do you want as a proof that not only is “AI” killing jobs, the replacement is measurably worse
…and anyway that’s not a real job, anyone can do it obviously if it’s so easy to automate
I’m sure they can just find another job, and besides they should have been working on getting out of that job given that they saw the writing on the wall. I mean that’s what I did, I was able to switch careers into coding and there’s no reason that everyone else on the planet couldn’t do that
So really it’s their fault and they should have planned for this
This is why AI is so hyped now. They all view it as the next bitcoin.
70% as good meaning catastrophically incorrect in 30% of the statements, most of the time? Needing careful reality check every single time?
My neighbour works for a large law firm that had decided to eliminate a number of junior positions because ChatGPT is significantly cheaper and "good enough" even if it makes numerous factual errors.
https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-fall-asleep-maui-fire-eve...
Not necessarily stupid though - Rachel Maddow was a Rhodes Scholar and also earned a dPhil.
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I'm starting to see a pattern. And who names their kid Donie?
>saying Democrats are causing covid
>saying dead basketball player is useless
I mean these seem like problems that could be easily solved by having a human intern read over the AI generated story before it's published.
I don't understand why Microsoft just let an experimental tech run a customer facing site without anyone to at least vet and read over the content