Nice. Really, I like it when management is dumb as fuck. It's a world of never ending joy.
Fuck AI
"We did it, Patrick! We made a technological breakthrough!"
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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
Burn, baby! Burn
Bwahahahahahahha 😂
I must say i love this very much. Only this may put idiots leading companies that use this crap to ditch it.
If true they’re all idiots, but I don’t believe the story anyway. All the data question answering LLMs I’ve seen use the LLM to write SQL queries on your databases and then wrap the output in a summary. So the summary is easy to check and very unlikely to be significantly wrong. AI/ML/statistics and code is a tool, use it for what it’s good for, don’t use it for what it’s not, treat hype with skepticism
I'm on the fence, but will say that if, for whatever reason, it was never actually connected to the data or the connection had some flaw, I could totally believe it would just fabricate a report that looks consistent with what the request asked for. Maybe it failed to ever convey that an error occurred. Maybe it conveyed the lack of data and the user thought he could just tell the AI to fix the problem without trying to understand it himself and triggered it to generate a narrative consistent with fixing it without actually being able to fix it.
Sure if you do a sanity check it should fall apart, but that assumes they bother. Some people have crazy confidence in LLM and didn't even check.
Clearly you've never worked as a data analyst, or you would know that the vast majority of upper management and C Suite are, in fact, all fucking idiots.
They're generally where they are because of mutual secrets and nepotism, for who else is on their contact list.
Love it.
I mean it hallucinates numbers when you ask it to extract some numeric daha publicly available online so yeah...