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The theoretical idea, I think, is that AI will increase our productivity by so much that companies can lay off large portions of their workforce to make up for the costs, or their workforce will be so much more productive that the extra money they're making will make up for the cost.
Personally, I don't see either of those things really coming true with the current generation of AI. I strongly feel like companies have jumped the gun and AI isn't really "ready" for that yet. Which is good, because the world really isn't either. But its bad because companies are dumping all their hopes and dreams into AI, and from my knowledge of working with an IT firm that's helping companies setup these kinds of AI solutions, I don't think its really panning out the way execs are imagining at all.
Some job roles can have decently increased productivity from AI. But for the most part, AI just is not actually "intelligent" enough to do what they're wanting and it makes more mistakes than your average junior employee.
Yes, corporations really seem to think that they can just use AI as some kind of accelerator button.
Reading between the lines, I think my company is disappointed with how we've been using Copilot so far. (Can they see usage statistics? I assume so.) Now they're trying to incentivize us with challenges and "prizes" for coming up with the best use cases and sharing with others in meetings. They want to track how much time it's saving us.
So far it's just been pissing away my time. I haven't used it for much, but I've been punked a couple times now by other people using Copilot and retyping the response confidently into a thread so I have no idea they even used AI. You know, I'm sitting here trying to determine if we have a severity 0 incident and some jackass posts a hallucinated bug report from Copilot as if they've solved the problem. It makes me want to grab my stack of technical books and drop them on someone's head.
Yuuuuup, my company is doing the "we're spending all this money on ai, but no one is using it. Let's compete to see who can come up with the best ways to use it!" Thing, too.
Each time they come to me, I remind them that I advised them not to purchase it after I was in the test group and couldn't find a useful way to use it.
They tell me I'm just not trying hard enough so I ask them what other people are using it for and pretty much the only answer is to write terrible emails with a ton of useless flowery language for them.