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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jolt" data-source="post: 9867571" data-attributes="member: 18142">Satya Nadella (at Microsoft) ran an employee survey about how excited people at MS were about AI projects.  Less than 25% were excited and it "blew his mind".  Part of the issue is why big companies want to pursue AI in the first place.  It lets them reduce staffing levels, which reduces overhead costs, which looks great on the quarterly and yearly reports to the SEC.  It also looks good at shareholder meetings.  The problem is your average end user doesn't give a rat's ass about a company's SEC filings.  And asking a person who might lose their job to AI about their excitement levels for their AI project is asinine.Also, like everything else in the world, AI is better at some things than others.  AI is really good at technical writing.  If I want to bang out a resume, a solid AI program will do a great job.  Formats and presentations are already well established and there are few, if any, judgement calls to be made.  AI has already "learned" how to write a resume; there isn't much left for it to learn.A story or a piece of art is different.  What goes into a successful story or piece of art is highly variable and very subjective.  AI doesn't understand subjective.  It can crank out a story, but it can't judge a story.  Also, AI doesn't have muscle memory - it doesn't learn by repetition.  It learns by acquiring new/more data.  If you eliminate 90% of the people generating content, then AI loses 90% of its learning.  AI trying to generate creative content learns next to nothing from being fed AI generated creative content.  All that produces is increasingly homogenized content.  End users generally don't that, especially if it means other people losing their jobs.Another problem is that, even going all the way back to the early 1900's when people started looking at how tech was going to change their lives, the big promise was that technology would free people from drudgery and leave them more free to pursue creative endeavors.  After over a century of that promise, companies suddenly don't want that anymore.  They want people to do the drudgery while tech produces creative works.  And, for some reason, they're surprised that people aren't excited about that.</blockquote>

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