Workers should learn AI skills and companies should use it because it’s a “cognitive amplifier,” claims Satya Nadella.
in other words please help us, use our AI
The oligarch class is again showing why we need to upset their cart.
As far as I can tell there hasn’t been any tangible reward in terms of pay increase, promotion or external recruitment from using the cognitive amplifier.
Social permission? I dont remember that we had a vote or something on this bullshit.
They don’t have that permission
you never had it to begin with. Goddamn leeches.
can’t keep what you never had you corrupt piece of shit.
AI industry needs to encourage job seekers to pick up AI skills (undefined), in the same way people master Excel to make themselves more employable.
Has anyone in the last 15 years willingly learned excel? It seems like one of those things you have to learn on the job as your boomer managers insist on using it.
I did and it’s awesome. People like to shit on Excel, but there is a reason why every business on earth runs on Excel. It’s a great tool and if you really learn it, you can do great things with it.
Excel depends on the usage. Way too many people want to use it for what it’s bad at, but technically can do, instead of using it for what it’s good at.
I’m fairly decent at using Excel, and have automated some database dependent tasks for my coworkers through it, which saves us a lot of time doing menial tasks no one actually wants to do.
I do. Got a free license from my last job and Excel blows the doors off Calc, or anything else. For business, Excel is moat of the reason they’re so tied into Office.
I love excel, personally. I’m a big ol’ nerd and love putting shit in a spreadsheet.
I willingly learned excel in the past 15 years!
I have since moved on to open source replacements.
Funny thing about “AI skills” that I’ve noticed so far is that they are actually just skills in the thing you’re trying to get AI to help with. If you’re good at that, you can often (though not always) get an effective result. Mostly because you can talk about it at a deeper level and catch mistakes the AI makes.
If you have no idea about the thing, it might look competent to you, but you just won’t be catching the mistakes.
In that context, I would call them thought amplifiers and pretty effective at the whole “talking about something can help debug the problem, even if the other person doesn’t contribute anything of value because you have to look at the problem differently to explain it and that different perspective might make the solution more visible”, while also being able to contribute some valueable pieces.
Holy crap, I think you’ve cracked it.
LLM AI is the trillion collar costing, terawatt consuming rubber ducky for the new millennium!
how else are you going to perform, document, and communicate engineering calculations in a format that is simple, intuitive, flexible, and easy to iterate upon?
I did take a few courses on excel over the last 25 years. I don’t use excel that much but most features will never be used by most people.
Yeah, very good analogy actually…
I remember back in the day people putting stuff like ‘Microsoft Word’ under ‘skills’. Instead of thinking ‘oh good, they will be able to use Word competently’, the impression was ‘my god, they think Word is a skill worth bragging about, I’m inclined to believe they have no useful skills’.
‘Excel skills’ on a resume is just so vague, people put it down when they just figured out they can click and put things into a table, some people will be able to quickly roll some complicated formula, which is at least more of a skill (I’d rather program a normal way than try to wrangle some of the abominations I’ve seen in excel sheets).
Using an LLM is not a skill with a significant acquisition cost. To the extent that it does or does not work, it doesn’t really need learning. If anything people who overthink the ‘skill’ of writing a prompt just end up with stupid superstitions that don’t work, and when they first find out that it doesn’t work, they just grow new prompt superstitions to add to it to ‘fix’ the problem.
Skill in Excel is wholly different than skills in other Office products. But if Excel is on your resume, your better expand and show what real use you’ve made of it. Otherwise it comes off just as you said.
I’d rather program a normal way than try to wrangle some of the abominations I’ve seen in excel sheets
That’s the way I also think about learning fancy spreadsheet stuff. Spreadsheets are good for putting data into a graph. They’re good for basic numeric stuff where there’s a simple pattern that repeats. But, pretty soon you’re in a situation where you should either have a real database or a real program. If you’re doing a lot of manipulation of data, you should have a program with loops, conditionals, errors, exceptions, etc. and most importantly with comments. If you’re storing a lot of data, you should be using a real database, not hundreds of lines in a spreadsheet.
If, at the end, you do want something visual, and don’t feel like dealing with a graphics library, you can always export the data to a CSV and import that into a spreadsheet.
Microsoft Word’ under ‘skills’.
Way back in the day a bunch of people endorsed me on linkedin for a bunch of nonsense like that and I manually hid all of it lol
“Microsoft thinks it has social permission to burn the planet for profit” is all I’m hearing.
Well, they at least have investor permission…which is the only people they care about anyway
Probably in the Hobbes sense that they’re not actively revolting
Take away:
- MS is well aware AI is useless.
- Nadella admits they invested G$ in something without having the slightest clue what its use-cas would be (“something something rEpLaCe HuMaNs”)
- Nadella is blissfully unaware of the “social” image MS already has in the eye of the public. You don’t have our social permission to still live as a company!
I have a nagging feeling the general public does not hate Microsoft as much as computer nerds do and so probably overall their image is muddled to not that bad overall.
Maybe they should look into selling AI CP since it seems to be great at generating that shit
That might be the only off-ramp.
But only to protect the children™ of course
They’ll spin it with some BS like “if they’re looking at our generations they won’t touch real children” or some shit like that
Well you already lost that or rather never actually had that. You all pushed a broken and incomplete product you need to find a use not us…
AI is the only “product” that I’ve ever seen where the sales pitch is, “We made it and now you should want it, but you have to figure out why you want it.”
CEOs aren’t people. That’s why they lobbied to have companies recognized as people. Stop giving them a stage.
I have a use for it. Put it in the recycle bin.
