A tangential AI question, not on AI itself, but on “How do you pretend to like AI at work because you know you have to?”

[MillieDynamite]

Probably right.

I imagined it as more of a wah-wah sound from the trumpet or whatever instrument it was

 

[crookedletter]

Since this is one of those “I hate AI so much I’m gonna post six angry replies just to prove it” threads, I’ll do my part and keep it to one.

And we're all so very proud of you.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I made one post expressing my dislike, and the others are responses to other people's posts. Other people's posts aren't as fun as other people's money.

Since this is one of those “I hate AI so much I’m gonna post six angry replies just to prove it” threads, I’ll do my part and keep it to one.

 

[Bamagan]

Start asking the AI the questions you would normally ask the chief-whatever who was enthusiastic about it, and happily report how much better everything goes when you bypass their input/cut out the middle-man(agement) and just consult the computer directly. If a bot can do their job, after all, it's much more efficient for the meat-made employee to stop being there.

 

[Writer61]

I try to focus on use-cases where it helps. The best example I have is live translation during a meeting, the results are occasionally hilarious but when you work with with people from different countries it is a huge plus. A huge time-saver is generating minutes from meetings. I don't think either represents theft of anybody's work.

More sketchy is that I have used AI to help with writing a couple of macros. No doubt the answers were built on the work of others, but I think both were so simple that the answer generated by AI just saved me time searching though results provided by Google/whatever.

 

[Britva415]

there is a vast distance between a supervisor saying they like a particular method of doing something and the demand that all subordinates adopt that method

And there’s a difference between that and demanding that subordinates like it.

A workplace is free to dictate expectations about how the work gets done and what tools will be used. A worker is free to feel however they feel about that. We usually just keep the feelings to ourselves and either do the work or… don’t.

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

I hear AI is pretty good if you ask it to take on a persona. So clearly, you ask the AI to pretend that it is someone who really loves using AI and wants to share that love with others. Then, you pose that AI scenarios and ask how it would respond if it were to be the sort of person who loves AI and, voila, you've learned how to pretend to be someone who likes AI.

Bonus points if you can feed it elements of your personality so that it can more accurately pretend to be YOU pretending to like AI in a business setting like your own.

 

[jsmiam]

I do appreciate the varied replies.

In my case I’m in the computer industry, and with AI being so pervasive, there is a pressure to look like you’re changing with the times. So disliking AI is “bad”, liking it is “good”.

I suppose I can console myself knowing at least some of the AI lovers out there are pretending too. And doing a better job of pretending than me.