GenAI in two words: “success theatre”. From Jon Victor @theinformation.bsky.social - ThreadSky

garymarcus.bsky.social • 2 days ago

GenAI in two words: “success theatre”.

From Jon Victor @theinformation.bsky.social

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Related to this, something I wrote lately:

https://makemeacto.substack.com/p/is-genai-digital-cocaine

It's not only theater. It's making us dumber.
It's more like thrash tv :)

unlearnable.bsky.social•2 days ago

Much like DOGE, you just fire people first and then figure out later if the AI worked

moisesjafet.com•2 days ago

"Theatre" is entertaining and distracting, harmless if weren't because the wake of waste left behind. But, what about the urge from the leader of a super power to hoard "rare earth" elements at almost any cost to power GenAI dominance? https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/is-ai-driving-demand-for-rare-earth-elements-and-other-materials-#:~:text=Companies%20are%20also%20devising%20technologies,uneven%20and%20unpredictable%20REE%20market.

fromage747.bsky.social•2 days ago

recoverreputation.bsky.social•1 day ago

it's a reminder to that it generates misinformation too

lipstickscribbles.bsky.social•2 days ago

Definitely seen at bigger firms.

Acts a meeting summarization tool that no one reads.

If you know languages, concepts, and paradigms, zero efficiency in trying to massage a tool to randomly spit out what you can craft in your head and express immediately, even without a modern IDE.

lipstickscribbles.bsky.social•2 days ago

If you haven't mastered those core competencies you're not gonna be able to explain them accurately to an AI, so your productivity will still suck.

apcrft.bsky.social•2 days ago

📌

stelek.bsky.social•1 day ago

AI doesn't exist.

jane22.me•2 days ago

@garymarcus.bsky.social My experience makes me admit I utterly agree with your analysis - I’d be interested in your take on agentic ai - even more AI eating itself or something else?

garymarcus.bsky.social•2 days ago

Agents an’t gonna work if built largely on LLMs.

mlvanguards.bsky.social•2 days ago

Agreed. Plenty of times implementing AI in the enterprise is backfiring and provides little to no value.

However, Zalando found a good use case for it that actually works https://corporate.zalando.com/en/newsroom/en/stories/zalando-expands-ai-powered-shopping-assistant-25-markets

mlvanguards.bsky.social•2 days ago

🙈 and we happened to write an article on it with Marvelous MLOps on substack: https://mlvanguards.substack.com/p/unicorns-and-rainbows-the-reality

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