• PlantJam@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    A salesman for an AI consulting company made the comment that we don’t expect perfection from humans, so why should we expect it from AI? He was smug about it, too, like it was his big gotcha. Joke’s on him, I’m the one that talked the bosses out of spending money with them.

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      4 hours ago

      we don’t expect perfection from humans, so why should we expect it from AI?

      If we can’t expect better from an AI than from a human, why should we use the AI (other than so you don’t have to pay workers)?

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        I think there’s an important semantic difference between worse performance and correctness. Tools, like AI, can underperform when compared to humans and still be very useful and worth investing into, but that’s only as long as they perform correctly.

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      6 hours ago

      That’s such a bad argument too. The whole point of technology is to help perfect the output of humans. Why would we buy technology that is known to not do that

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        6 hours ago

        “You can get pretty good results most of the time and save money on labor!” Not like our whole business model is focused on expertise and compliance or anything. Surely our clients won’t mind a few little mistakes here and there, as a treat.