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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 days ago

‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work

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‘AI is no longer optional’ — Microsoft admits AI doesn’t help at work

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David Gerard@awful.systemsM to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 2 days ago
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An internal Microsoft memo has leaked. It was written by Julia Liuson, president of the Developer Division at Microsoft and GitHub. The memo tells managers to evaluate employees based on how much t…

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    Liuson told managers that AI “should be part of your holistic reflections on an individual’s performance and impact.”

    who talks like this

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      chatgpt

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      People who work at Microsoft.

      Source: Me, I used to, was driven moderately insane by their highly advanced and pervasive outbreak of corpospeak.

      They are impressed by LLMs because they reproduce their inane dialect.

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      A company that forces you to write a “Connect” every half-year where you reflect on your performance and Impact™ : (click here for the definition of Impact™ in Microsoft® Sharepoint™)

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        deleted by creator

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        Gods I hated writing my connect

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      Business grads who think it makes them sound smart. I have to deal with way too many of them. It’s infuriating, because behind it all I know just how dull most of them truly are.

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      By creating a language only they are able to speak and interpret, the managerial class is protecting its existence and self reproduction, while keeping people of other classes out or only let them in after passing through a proper reeducation camp, e.g. MBA program.

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        Ah so like Latin

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          More like a version of Esperanto with proprietary extensions to make it incompatible with standard Esperanto.

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        People that add no value to society…

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      I have no doubt that a chatbot would be just as effective at doing Liuson’s job, if not moreso. Not because chatbots are good, but because Liuson is so bad at her job.

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      Some C-Suite executives that think they’re important/interesting enough to hold a Ted Talk. Usually it’s just buzzword babble, but it occasionally escalates.

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      imagine Sephiroth writing business books

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        Wouldn’t let him near any books. Dude always destroys the spine.

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          dude. spoilers.

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          …Lotus, you clever bastard.

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      Hr. Somehow this is considered acceptable speach in those formal circles.

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      An AI chatbot, that’s who

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        Indistinguishable from a business idiot.

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