My grandpa loved shouting social security codes with their names, can you please do that while celebrating like he used to?
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DOGE Plan to Push AI Across the US Federal Government is Wildly Dangerous
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It’s a cop out and a dumb one. ai is inefficient, and bad at doing human jobs cause it’s not human, useful as a tool but not on its own
AI would be great. AI could probably do a lot of human jobs.
large language models are not AI. please stop calling them that. they're literally the same kind of algorithm your phone keyboard uses for autocorrect, but scaled way up with a bunch of recursion. start typing, then let autocorrect fill in a few sentences. this is just a fancier, not even much more sophisticated, version of that.
this isn't about efficiency. this is about looting and lying. it's about fucking up peoples lives, overwhelming them and frustrating them on a daily basis so they are too exhausted to care whats true, what's human, or anything else but what daddy tells them.
In total agreement with you there. LLM are fancy autocorrect search bars, they 100% are not intelligent other than the programming behind it. I honestly gave up correcting people on this, be cause it’s all being pushed by marketing as AI and it’s omnipresent.
yeah. they build a weapon to slay truth. and it's really tedious to try and fight that. better to just let them.
i mean, I get it. it's exhausting and infuriating, but this one is kind of fucking important. it's not like it's just a waste and a bunch of scams like cryptocurrency was.
its icetown all over again!
Musk wishes he was half the man Ben Wyatt is!
Does that make Trump literally Chris Traeger?
I work with a team of very talented AI and ML folks. I think it works quite well in certain usecases. These are not they.
Fuck yeah, put AI in charge of the nuclear arsenal!
The overall goal is to cut the agency’s budget by fifty percent. Shedd suggested using AI to analyze contracts for redundancies, root out fraud, and facilitate a reduction in the federal workforce by automating much of their work.
I am bullish on AI in the long run.
I am skeptical that given the state of affairs in 2025, you can reasonably automate half of the federal government, via AI or any other means.
I also don't think that the way to do this is to lay off half of the federal workforce and then, after the fact, see what can be automated. If you look at the private sector automating things, it tends to hedge its bets. Take self-service point-of-sale kiosks. We didn't just see companies simply lay off all cashiers. Instead, we saw them brought in as an option, then had the company look at what worked and what didn't work -- and some of those were really bad at first -- and then increase the rate of deployment once it had confidence in the solution and a handle on the issues that came with them.
Yeah, but you and much of the business world have intelligence and strategy. Elon is the guy who thinks he can just pay some Chinese gamer to play a game for him, then pretend he did it himself; that's his version of "brilliant strategist."
It's no wonder he can't figure out how to automate anything safely or correctly, because he doesn't actually understand how to do anything himself, and he can't just pay some Chinese rando to do it for him.
I worked as a consultant for a long time. I learned that anyone who starts a question with "Why don't we just..." generally doesn't understand the problem.
"Why don't we just..."
"All you need to do is..."
Elon and Krasnov Trump can be replaced by AI.
No shit.