Re:Money Is Pouring into AI. Skeptics Say It’s a ‘Grift Shift.’
by vineyardmike on Thursday August 31, 2023 @05:00AM
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> Does Microsoft Middle Manager 2.0 stop working in the presence of traffic cones?
I think if you put a traffic cone on my IRL managers head she’d stop working too. Maybe a bit different… but maybe not.
I don’t think the poster was saying we’re within arms reach of it, but that there’s a path that takes us from here to there. A MSFT AI manager obviously wouldn’t behave exactly like a real human, but a tool that aggregates and summarizes information from many reports for a high level manager, and helps negotiate priorities is something potentially doable with some prompt engineering and advancements in models.
I respect many of my past managers, and some of them were great mentors and materially improved my life but 50+% of the value managers provide to an organization can be done with a bit of glue between GPT-x and Jira. It’d free up a lot of their time for the remaining 50% too.
I think if you put a traffic cone on my IRL managers head she’d stop working too. Maybe a bit different… but maybe not.
I don’t think the poster was saying we’re within arms reach of it, but that there’s a path that takes us from here to there. A MSFT AI manager obviously wouldn’t behave exactly like a real human, but a tool that aggregates and summarizes information from many reports for a high level manager, and helps negotiate priorities is something potentially doable with some prompt engineering and advancements in models.
I respect many of my past managers, and some of them were great mentors and materially improved my life but 50+% of the value managers provide to an organization can be done with a bit of glue between GPT-x and Jira. It’d free up a lot of their time for the remaining 50% too.