BOFH: It's not generative AI at all, it's degenerate AI BOFH logo telephone with devil's horns "Yes but you can't just do that!" the Boss snaps. "Sure we can!" the PFY says. "And we did!" I add. "You've no right to do so. You're attempting to change the terms of the employees' contracts." "Not really. Anyway, they agreed to it." "They only agreed to it because they couldn't …
Right about now we find that the PFY has been secretly training the degenerate AI (I *love* that term) on the BOFH's data and that he is about to institute a take-over bid at the BOFH's expense. Industrial civil war in 5 ... 4 ... 3 ...
Spawn of Satan because that is what I think these AI models are ... -->
Yes, we've all seen the danger signs, and any BOFHs and PFYs of any repute should have already exempted the IT department's data from being fed into the infernal AI machine : because we all know that feeding IT into IT will cause highly dangerous infinitely recursive loops.
I suspect that is actually a rather profound observation.
It's too easy to overdo and ineffectual if too subtle.
I am confident a LLM Uriah will eventually be trained as there is apparently always a market for flatterers, grovellers, fawners, bootlickers, toadies, sychophants, browntongue lizards, and the myriad synonyms that english finds the need to describe the variety of specimens of this genus of despicable objects.
Sounds like they are going the way of the Jetsons. They need one person to 'press the button' for some obscure, or externally forced, reason. Then you have IT who have to replace hardware when needed, and someone to 'manage' the, albeit small, staff. That same person probably is the CEO, so he can get his bonuses etc. for all of the good work the AI did, and to sign paperwork since the laws don't accept AI as a legal entity.
When the AI needs someone to upgrade the hardware they call the BOFH, who then calls the button pusher to assist him. That keeps the BOFH and PFY employed, and of course the director, because they need a 'human'-like entity to deal with the outdated corporation still out there when negotiating contracts, etc.
Who else wrily smiled at Simon’s BOFH tale imagining it a fanciful fiction rather than realising it presently practically operating virtually everywhere there is the opportunity for Novel Extra Ordinary ACTion and/or NEUKlearer HyperRadioProACTive IT?
:-) Would you be assured, or maybe not because of the implications of the above, to know there only be stony faces in the likes of a Pentagon or a DARPA or an AFWERX for such is recognised to be a catastrophic vulnerability offering an unlimited number of unknowable prior to the attack possibilities against which there is no possible available defence ....... as this tale surely tells ....... https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2024/7/12/how-to-make-the-pentagon-softwarecentric
Both these concepts are a bit dated but the sentiment behind it is 100% on the money. The numbers people don't think of LLMs as statistical machines that, correctly applied, are really useful. They see it as a reducing headcount, replacing (expensive) people by (expensive) outsourced computing. They don't realize that what's being made is really just exquisitely filtered noise, noise that might result in the works of Shakespeare but in the absence of anyone to recognize it as such (except another LLM?) it might as well go unread.
We're living with the consequences of educating far too many lawyers, sales and other PR types. (What were referred to in the Hitch Hiker tale as the "B-Ark".)
I'd just be fearful of any intelligence in HR, It would make their half baked schemes to get me to behave while being paid more effective
However, after unscrewing one of the legs off the HR bods chair and setting the health and safety guy on them when HR tried to repair it, we ended up with a nice little loop where they'd spend all day bothering each other and left the rest of us alone.
This scenario is implausible: the idea that senior management would allow itself to be replaced by AI.
AI is for replacing people who do actual work.
Why, the very idea strikes at the very roots of the system! It's the beginning of the end! The thin end of the wedge! A Bennite solution! Where will it end? The abolition of the monarchy?
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