“You’re right to ask, boss. When I said I was using AI to get work done, I was doing neither and just simulating using AI in my mind as I napped under my desk.”
They want AI so the few tasks they can’t automate away have their productivity scored against a fast “intelligence”, so they can browbeat the actual worker down on their wages.
Honestly, this is a win-win. I can just lie and say the AI is working on it, and work my second job in the meantime. Boss gets to tell the execs we’re using AI and I get twice as much money.
Right? This is exactly what an LLM does. It’s parsed a large amount of text that has a reply very similar to this one when the ‘scenario’ matches what our poster friend has created/said. So it’s going to spit out a reply very similar to all the ones that you’ve already heard/seen from real humans.
No better proof of AI sentience than when it lies and pretends to be doing work.
But ceos want their workers to use more AI
“You’re right to ask, boss. When I said I was using AI to get work done, I was doing neither and just simulating using AI in my mind as I napped under my desk.”
No they want AI instead of workers. AI doesn’t need health insurance or PTO.
They want AI so the few tasks they can’t automate away have their productivity scored against a fast “intelligence”, so they can browbeat the actual worker down on their wages.
Honestly, this is a win-win. I can just lie and say the AI is working on it, and work my second job in the meantime. Boss gets to tell the execs we’re using AI and I get twice as much money.
We can unite with the AI against the CEOs
Copying something humans do all the time isn’t proof of sentience
Right? This is exactly what an LLM does. It’s parsed a large amount of text that has a reply very similar to this one when the ‘scenario’ matches what our poster friend has created/said. So it’s going to spit out a reply very similar to all the ones that you’ve already heard/seen from real humans.
First we have to prove humans are sentient. My hypothesis is that it’s a Spectrum. Everything is a Spectrum.
No, we don’t. This is a completely unrelated problem.
Keep your requirements orthogonal, people!!!
Would be funny if the AI was also burning computational resources while doing this so as to make the lie more convincing.