I work IT in the finance sector, and you would not believe the PUSH for us to use copilot from upper management. It honestly feels like they have a gun to their head, forcing them to talk about it with us every waking moment I showed them the 3/8ths 5/16ths thing. Did not matter. Madness. - ThreadSky

extremelyserious.bsky.social • 25 days ago

I work IT in the finance sector, and you would not believe the PUSH for us to use copilot from upper management. It honestly feels like they have a gun to their head, forcing them to talk about it with us every waking moment

I showed them the 3/8ths 5/16ths thing. Did not matter.

Madness.

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cunninglinguist69.bsky.social•25 days ago

Is it just about squeezing productivity? I’m surprised to see how many jobs are pushing for it

extremelyserious.bsky.social•25 days ago

My gut says yes, like with all forms of automation the line is always "it frees you up for other tasks" but the "other tasks" are "standing in the unemployment line"

cunninglinguist69.bsky.social•25 days ago

Ohhh hadn’t considered we were that close. They’re waiting for the point it gets to 60% accuracy lol

cyaneyed.wtf•24 days ago

Our higher-ups started to get really interested in using AI at my job until I pointed out that we would have to make our own or feed it proprietary information for the way they wanted to use it, which could then become part of the model & be found by others. Not a peep about it since

owmy.faith•25 days ago

do they have to sign NDAs?

extremelyserious.bsky.social•25 days ago

I'm sure, but NDAs about AI stuff? I doubt it.

It's honestly got the same feeling as the Blockchain fad. I literally had the CTO ask me "what can you do with blockchain?"

(I'm an exchange admin. what the fuck)

And then like magic no one talked about blockchain. But it was INTENSE at the time

owmy.faith•25 days ago

It was just something that came up in i think a @lawfulmasses.bsky.social video recently, like, how do you guarantee privileged information isn't being misused by Copilot. Not to mention what else may leak or be inferred or like, not even double checked. Aaaahhhhhh

extremelyserious.bsky.social•25 days ago

Yeah, I brought this up to infosec. Their answer, I shit you not: "we have guarantees from microsoft that no data will be exfiltrated"

like ok. ok sure. ok. yall ignore sentinel alerts about CC numbers being kept in notepads on desktops. but you're sure about THIS. ok. ok.

owmy.faith•25 days ago

3 of the last 6 legal videos are AI fails to various degrees, a chatbot offering refunds, Copilot's security and yeah, hallucinating authors, it's incredible anyone is championing this tech.

lamentablyawake.bsky.social•25 days ago

The AI bros must be really hoping Dan Olson isn't making a video about AI.

theredandblack.bsky.social•25 days ago

what is the 3/8th 5/16ths thing?

extremelyserious.bsky.social•25 days ago

It gave this answer for *weeks* and I was able to live-demonstrate this to make my point

theredandblack.bsky.social•25 days ago

Ah, yeah. Pretty typical hallucination. I don't trust these LLMs for anything personally. Here's a conversation I just had with ChatGPT using the old "How many rs are there in strawberry" trick.

ryanmoret.net•25 days ago

Gotta love the "explanation" that 6/16 is clearly smaller than 5/16

extremelyserious.bsky.social•25 days ago

its the confidence, thats what gets me. it doesnt just lie, it confidently lies and compounds lies on lies

but definitely we gotta use this to "stay ahead of the curve"

monkey brained ass world

ryanmoret.net•25 days ago

I just googled this and the explanation was correct but the top-line summary STILL said "No, 3/8 is not bigger than 5/16; 5/16 is larger than 3/8."

btcarolus.bsky.social•24 days ago

Working with fractions is one of the harder areas of elementary school math for kids to grasp. The internet confidently giving the wrong answer won’t have any bad effects I’m sure.

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