Chasing the AI dragon? Your IT might be circling the drain, IBM warns Is chasing the promise of generative AI causing companies to neglect other IT services? IBM seems to think so. Big Blue claims that while IT leaders are focused on preparing their organizations for generative AI adoption, confidence in their IT team's ability to deliver basic services has declined. This data is drawn from a …
Perhaps AI is really just a distraction, as some tech commentators are starting to suggest.
And whenever not just a distraction, but slowly and surely proving itself to be an Almighty Interruption enabled to be programmed to do and be anything .... from a simply heavenly creative disruption to a diabolically complex destructive force, although such would be playing second fiddle to those Almighty Interventions heralding Alien Visitor Ventures of otherworldly intelligent design created to deliver the much more potent and dangerously explosive product, simply heavenly creative disruptions of diabolically complex destructive force should it necessarily get rough if the going gets tough and the tough get going and rough in the rough. What then of such as definitely be no distraction?
Is/Are El Reg in agreement with those tech commentators who might be starting to suggest AI is really just a distraction, Dan? Or does it know better and/or think differently?
There be surely El Reg you are to die for fans who would just love to know.
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I'm an hand knitter and these new knitting machines aren't terribly useful for my job either - because, well obvious reasons.
Enterprise Architecture is really easy to replace. I might even create a model on bank holiday Monday, whilst sunning on the beach with goldfish nibbling at my toes. I bet it takes about an hour to model and a few days to 'stitch' together.
P45 is at front desk. Don't make us walk you out, son.
"blaming financial pressures for hindering their ability to invest in technology talent"
Well, C-Suite decided AI and automation would allow them to get rid of the need for that expensive "technology talent" (aka the engineers who knew what the hell they were doing). Now those engineers are gone and the results promised by AI and automation aren't all they were cracked up to be, that "technology talent" has gone on to do other things. The skills become scarcer and of course more in demand.
"The skills become scarcer and of course more in demand."
Pretty much standard throughout most of humanity, not just AI.
That has always been the key to my success - do something nobody else can or thinks about. Be that one, not that other. Help improve the AI and enrich urself.
"Pay us what we're worth to you or fuck off."
yeah. scum. that a project manager or some twat in HR gets as much money as a seasoned Senior Developer who has seen it all and done most of it - well that to which he/she/gay/you will admit after a few bevvies.
It would disgust me to see it. You are the talent. IT is like the pop music industry pre-Beatles and the talent is getting dry humped by hangers-on and roadies of IT (project managers).
Burn it down. Burn it all down. I've got the lighter fluid you bring the matches.
"And no I'm not going in to your piss poor excuse for an office-cum-adult-day-care."
Love it. We can no longer tolerate being surrounded by IQ returds. I mean 80 is about average, FFS. The Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B nears completion, I just have to order those tasteful LED strips from Argos and put them up and we are good to go.
As far as I can see the only practical use case for AI in a typical business is the customer complaints chat bot.
Just teach it the run around excuse verbiage so beloved of help desks on the other side of the world.
Then your disgruntled customer will give up after 20 minutes of "helpful" suggestions and you can close the ticket as "solved".
So the stats are proving out what I said since the AI stock pumping bubble began: Neural networks are not suitable for general purpose AI and are not "intelligent" in the least. .... Groo The Wanderer
Not yet with “intelligence" suitable and oven ready for general purpose AI, Groo The Wanderer, but for clones and iterations/copies and developments of the Special Purpose ParaMilitary Operation model/module, an absolute must-have element/component/driver for extending expansive leadership into Future Field Building AIdDVentures ..... with Advanced IntelAIgently designed Digitised Ventures delivering the Supply, Mentoring and Monitoring of Neuro-Linguistic ProgramMING* Projects for Learned Large Language Learning Machines to remotely manage/leverage/virtually command and autonomously control.
Capiche?/Verstehen Sie?/Вы понимаете?/你明白吗？
*Mined IntelAIgent Network Games/Mind Infiltration Networking Games [which are also perfected suited and booted for those able, prepared and preferring to be stealthy and failsafe secure and WFH]
[This General Purpose Truth announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly from management's expectations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that include, among others, risks related to potential future losses, significant amount of indebtedness, competition, commercial agreements and strategic alliances, seasonality, potential fluctuations in operating results and rate of growth, foreign exchange rates, management of potential growth, systems interruptions, international expansion, consumer trends, inventory, fulfillment centre optimisation, limited operating history, government regulation and taxation, fraud, and new business areas.] :-) Poe's Law Rules AI Reigns :-)
If you think such Neuro-Linguistic ProgramMING* Projects are anything new rather than just now being realised as a newly versioned, popular common private and pirate business sector toy for human-centric command and control in the hands, hearts and minds of A.N.Other Undocumented Few with Inalienable Work, Rest and Play Rights, think again and prepare yourself to be better reedutained ..... better reeducated and entertained ....... for the following unpleasant home truths you are surely bound to recognise as nothing new but something definitely in need of radical fundamentalist revision for an evolving revolutionary change of primary direction ........
The same thing could be said when the media argued in one homogenous voice that Biden was “sharp as a tack” following his disastrous debate against Trump. More shockingly, however, is how so many Americans were deluded by this assessment of Biden’s performance due to media spin. This shows that even the most intelligent people are susceptible to becoming malleable play things in the hands of the mainstream media, whose primary goal is not to inform its listeners, but to simply brainwash them. After all, they don’t call it ‘programming’ for nothing. ...... https://www.rt.com/news/602872-us-kamala-harris-interview/
They can shove their 'work' where the sun don't shine.
There is another article on here about one of the 'osser agencies that occasionally luck into getting something right, but are basically a bunch of 'ossers pumping out reports that cover all angles.
I'm sure their interns use the Reg to judge their own register. Cause that report in the other article is what most of us here have been saying for 6 months (excluding the twat naysayers who bleated from the start). Their report doesn't even use an AI model. The kn0bHeaDS are still using 'abacus'-like manual models to reach their guesses.
Posters on here estimated it would require real-time SI to achieve synthetic conscienceless (which is closer to insect thinking with a large IQ than mammal).
It was as calculated here that 10-15 years for servers. 20 for on-device using a model that scraped and digested huge amounts of data on the subject - so much so that it broke Gemini and lead to an encoding hack being discovered for LLMs.
And now posters are theorising SI models with breaking of paradox walls from hyper-recursive loops leading to some form of unfathomable 'computing' (it is the only word we have but SI does not compute.
How much do you think: The Register Consulting BS Experts Inc., in association with the Commenturds, present... "The future".
50p a copy.
Basically the firm doesn't have the kit to do the "AI" the C-suite I thinks, without any real knowledge*, the organisation should be doing and even if it did, the already depleted pool of IT expertise has neither the time nor the actual skills (who has?) to utilize it.
So any sane IT type has packed his parachute and is attaching his static line ready to jump while wondering whether tulip farming might be a paying proposition. :)
* a chap one knows was saying the chaps in his outfit... the future don't y'know.
>according to its research, just 29 percent of cloud IT assets and services are performing as required,
>with the remainder essentially representing tech debt accumulated over years of piecemeal
>technology implementations.
Such an organization is not going to be able to take on anything in the LLM world.
Don't even get me going on this "technical debt" business, which translates to "We've screwed it up already but we can't stop now." Kind of like the Boeing Starliner.
>Some 58 percent of the CxOs quizzed by IBM say they are having difficulty filling key technology roles,
>with 54 percent blaming financial pressures for hindering their ability to invest in technology talent.
>Perhaps all the money is being spent on GPUs instead of hiring people with the right skills?
Perhaps money is being spend on CxO's instead of people who can actually do the work. I have so many stories ... but so does anyone who has worked in IT for a while and actually tries to get things done. It's not rewarded, not up front and not after the fact. Well fine, that's the way of the world, and as long as the hardware gets faster the people can get dumber, right? SMH
Oh yeah one more thing, tales from the 1980s - when AI mean "Expert Systems" we always got the request from IT groups, "Hey, we don't know how to do XYZ, can we build an Expert System that will do it for us?" And the answer was "No, that's not how it works." Someone *else* might build you that system, but you, cannot. We generally told them that in the first five minutes, but we *always* got the question, anyway.
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