I see a lot of discussion here about over-hyped AI, and then I see the huge AI bubble at my workplace, in news, in PR statements, etc.
Are there folks who work at companies – especially interested in those in tech – that have a reasonable handle on AI’s practical uses and its limitations?
Where I work, there’s:
- a dashboard of AI usage by team and individual, which will definitely not affect performance review in any way
- a mandate to use one AI tool last month, and this month a new one to abandon that tool and adopt a different one
- quarterly goals where almost every one has some amount of “with AI” in it
- letters from the CEO asking which teams are using AI to implement features from ticket descriptions, or (inspired by the news) use flocks of agents, asking for positives without mention of asking for negatives
- a team creating a review pipeline for AI-generated output in our product, planning to review the quality of the output… using AI
- teammates are writing code and designs and sending them for review without ensuring functionality or pruning irrelevant portions, despite a statement that everyone is responsible for reviewing AI output
Is all the resistance to overuse of AI grassroots and is the pressure for rampant adoption uniform among executives/investors? Or are some companies or verticals not drinking the koolaid?
I just use AI to fill in the stupid forms HR make us do and don’t verify its output because I don’t respect it. Kills 2 birds with 1 stone.
Please God, give me an AI agent that can watch the video and do quiz for the yearly mandatory HR training
My company has started using AI voices/figures in the videos. Like they weren’t bad enough already…
AI watching AI to AI some slop to satisfy the AI the HR is using. Ugh.
My company has some mandatory training videos they redid with AI. I don’t get it, none of the actual content was any different from last year’s video. They literally paid someone to redo the video with AI instead of just reuse the previous video.
It’s kinda the same thing as Coke’s AI Christmas commercials this past year. They could have run their old, classic commercials like Hershey’s kisses does every year. Instead they paid to make new commercials with and pissed a bunch of people off