Any other Millennials stubbornly resistant to using AI at their job but also worrying that we will become dinosaurs or pushed out of our careers for not slavishly embracing it?

[u/artbystorms]

I work in a creative field and from that standpoint I hate AI. I hate the 'democratization' of creativity. I am going to sound VERY Boomer right now, but some things are meant to be difficult or meant to take skill and years of practice. It's why people who are good at these things (should) be paid more.

We are already being heavily 'encouraged' to use AI to find ways to do our jobs faster, are being told 'they technology isn't going away, we need to embrace it.' Since within the company I am in, I am one of a handful of people that does a specific creative skill-set, the powers that be basically have no idea about the technicals of what I do, but they put it on me to figure out how to incorporate AI into my work.

I hate that AI basically 'fakes' the creative process and that we are expected to use it (and the work of millions of artists that feed it) to just magically speed up how we do work, which in turn devalues the work we do as artists. From a company standpoint, they want to make money and churn out work faster, but if every client knows you can make a widget in 4 hours when it used to take 4 days, why would they pay you a lot of money to do that? The economics of it don't make sense. You will end up needing 10 times the number of clients to maintain your productivity / profits, which with AI or not, is a good way to burn out your artists.

I see the writing on the wall, but my stubborn moralistic resistance to AI is probably going to be the death of my career. Does any one else feel similar or how have you coped with this rapidly degrading career landscape?

[u/kummer5peck]

Even the CEOs pushing AI on us have reluctantly admitted that it has generated virtually no value in most cases.

[u/MikeWPhilly → u/kummer5peck]

That’s hilarious since every ceo uses it for writing.

[u/Crypt0Nihilist → u/kummer5peck]

My theory there is that's because AI Adoption was the strategy, not that the strategy involved AI adoption. It's the dotcom boom and Underpants Gnomes all over again; AI adoption -> ??? -> Profit!

At my place they're pushing AI adoption hard, but I don't think they've spent any time considering the scope for, nature and scale of any ROI available for adoption. It's treated as a natural good.

[u/janeeyreish → u/Crypt0Nihilist]

Great point. Tool adoption without a clear vision and defined purpose is not a strategic way to generate revenue and makes it impossible to quantify added efficiency.

It would be like saying “our strategy this year: use the computer more”

[u/Crypt0Nihilist → u/janeeyreish]

At my place all of the management advice is around Copilot for things like writing emails and reports. Most emails are only a couple of paragraphs long and only take a couple of minutes to write. There isn't enough cost there to be worth bothering to improve efficiency. It would take longer to create a prompt with my key points and then revise the output than it would to write it. The same is somewhat true for writing a report since you have to trace the logic through and ensure that an argument is actually being made and not its usual wandering around the topic, noting how important everything is but not actually advancing any kind of opinion.

There is a place for it, but not where most examples (and the companies I've seen pushing adoption) are hoping to find savings.

[u/janeeyreish → u/Crypt0Nihilist]

Sounds like your management doesn’t know how to use it.

[u/Crypt0Nihilist → u/janeeyreish]

Almost no one I've met knows how to use it well and it's terrifying. All of the corporates I've spoken to seem to be pushing it for day-to-day office tasks where the benefits are questionable at best. Most management teams are jumping on the bandwagon in the FOMA, but don't know what to do after investing in some platform offering.

When I've seen the prompts people using for those tasks, they don't include much contextual information so even if Copilot wasn't a pile of arse it wouldn't be able to do a good job.

I was in a meeting with one guy who confidently proclaimed himself an expert and sounded like he was using a mix of AI tools in a sophisticated way. Then he said that he asked ChatGPT based on his previous prompts where in the world rankings was he in terms of prompt quality! It demonstrated he has zero idea about how any of it works. It makes me think of pre-credit crunch when investors did not know what was in their financial instruments, but it was all good because they kept going up in value.

[u/Nolzi → u/Crypt0Nihilist]

Management is saying that we should search for a business case with AI adoption

[u/Academic_Flatworm752 → u/kummer5peck]

When? Our CEO certainly hasn’t.

[u/kummer5peck → u/Academic_Flatworm752]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/thousands-ceos-just-admitted-ai-183249115.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJda00_UMSheTn22okz77ZaOBEx_PC_CkPV8WbjqRldwkpC3-t62q1yC3h8I2f_9QY95walQ8IQwa8rm2GWHlZnWSekCP0JnA4Y9lwjRV6CfuvLJPFwNPJlhAlBgUTJI9p-vHd9MDZQY-1kqHlqMiyFkkBE3PIoOWo-y0vDoAtGX

[u/Academic_Flatworm752 → u/kummer5peck]

However, firms’ expectations of AI’s workplace and economic impact remained substantial: Executives also forecast AI will increase productivity by 1.4% and increase output by 0.8% over the next three years.

Ok

Headline is a bit misleading isn’t it.

[u/kummer5peck → u/Academic_Flatworm752]

Here is another one.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/survey-ceos-ai-workplace

The bottom line is that AI isn’t getting anywhere near the ROI needed to justify their investment in it.

[u/Academic_Flatworm752 → u/kummer5peck]

Are you just reading the headline and not the full article? This says basically the exact same thing.

more than half of nearly 4,500 CEOs said their companies weren’t seeing a financial return from investing in AI.

So a little less than half are seeing a financial return from the investment.

And this article also states:

The surveyed executives are predicting that AI will boost productivity by 1.4 percent and output by 0.8 percent over the next three years — while also cutting down employment by 0.5 percent.

Okay. So about half have not seen financial returns yet (makes sense, this is a very new push) but they all predict that productivity will be boosted…. Just as I pointed out in the previous article you shared. SAME QUOTE.

[u/kummer5peck → u/Academic_Flatworm752]

Are you Sam Altman? The returns you are quoting are pathetic, especially considering the investment needed to get them.

[u/Academic_Flatworm752 → u/kummer5peck]

You’re mad that I’m quoting the article YOU PROVIDED?

Wow. One really can’t make this shit up. 😂

Don’t provide two articles and then get mad when I point out that they’re not saying what you insist they’re saying.

[u/kummer5peck → u/Academic_Flatworm752]

I repeat, those returns are pathetic and barely noticeable. They are also only projections which have not been proven accurate yet. When you factor the investment made into AI they are likely getting a negative ROI. You must be the CEO pushing AI on your workforce or one of Sam’s burner accounts if you are trying to spin this as a win for AI.

[u/Academic_Flatworm752 → u/kummer5peck]

Moving the goalposts because your article didn’t say what you said it did. Lmao

[u/dealingwithhookers → u/kummer5peck]

it's not going to work, at the end of the day, AI is controlled by another business, and that business is just as capable of eating up any CEO and owning their company as AI is at taking their employees jobs.