She sounds like a loser, I feel bad for her kid.
Somebody get that kid outta there!
Fuckin half wit, no wonder CEO’s love AI, dumb as bricks
I don’t understand why people are still taking this woman seriously. She is not a ‘girlboss’. She is the woman who ran Yahoo into the ground, taking it from one of the giants of the dot com era into a largely worthless and useless has-been by grossly mismanaging every single one of their formerly valuable properties.
The fact that she is involved immediately makes this company lose credibility in my eyes.
The fact that she apparently needs an AI model to come up with three compliments for her own daughter only reinforces my opinion.
She is the woman who ran Yahoo into the ground
Was Yahoo doing that well in 2012? At the time people were saying that she would never have gotten the job if Yahoo wasn’t a sinking ship
I largely agree with you, though by the time she took the reigns at yahoo, it was already pretty dead.
But this pattern of executives proudly offloading ‘pesky personal connection’ to AI just works to confirm that their stratum of society are almost exclusively sociopaths.
She probably “extracted value” for shareholders of a dying company. This usually means picking the company apart, selling things, firing people, and offshoring labor.
IMO, every time a CEO, bigshot capitalist, or industrialist is cited as a “hero”, I try to keep in mind they are not our hero.
This woman’s bad decisions brought down an Internet giant and yet she’s still treated as if she is someone worth listening to.
hey now, she was paid quite well for that work, over $200m.
Dhe was paid to do a job and, since shes stilñ there, i guews she is doing the job well
The job simply wasn’t “make yahoo something big and successful”
This feels a bit like an ad for dazzle.
Because it is. She’s fully capable of coming up with three superlatives about her child, but she’d rather use her kid as a prop in a sales pitch.
She’s fully capable of coming up with three superlatives about her child
You may underestimate how much of a sociopath these people are…
I genuinely don’t understand people like this who are so averse to thinking that they go out of their way to prompt a language model to get an answer that they should’ve known already.
People in my life say I think to much despite the fact I’m naturally a deep thinker, quick is disappointing to hear from them because I know they use LLMs for “research”, which really means to ask tops 3 questions and think you’re informed.
Well hey, at least the rich can be unthinking dumbasses too
Had to input what the nanny told her about her kid.
This is dystopian as hell.
I kind of like that the article points out a problem with a lot of stuff that is implemented on us:
Like, did we think about this for more than a second?
When you have no idea how to parent specifically because you’re a fucking monster.
Maybe CEOs aren’t better than other people? Maybe they shouldn’t be making important decisions.
if anything, it shows Mayer performing the exact kind of cognitive offloading that any AI tool worth its salt should free us up to focus on rather than doing for us.
This has been the focus from the start, though. Almost all of the “killer apps” for AI that we’re being sold by the AI companies are about doing the creative stuff and human interaction for us. So we can spend more time being depressed, mindless worker drones, I guess?
I’d love for an AI to chit-chat with my co-workers and fluff my boss so I could just do my work and go home.
“Cognitive offloading” may well be the words that doom the human race to our Idiocrasy future
The words aren’t what doom us, the phenomenon they describe is. Without the words, we remain in ignorance, which compounds with the thoughtlessness.
Conversely, putting words to it gives the mind something to work on.
🍆💨 uuh mmm yeah!
It’s cognitive too, right?
“Cognitive offloading” == “lobotomy”
These people are so out of touch
It’s really interesting thinking about what changed in tech and why all the leaders are like this. It used to be people developing and fitting technology to goals - mapping the world, enabling democratic power or niche hobby relationships - and that generally ended up being exciting and helpful.
But at some point tech became captured by a few specific ideas and technology - SaaS, AI, data mining - and every CEO now tries to fit the goals to the technology. It no longer matters to these people what the benefit to the user is, they just work backwards from what the technology can do and rationalize whatever it is as the goal.
From what I’ve seen in Startups both during the 90s and more recently, the spirit in them changed from “solve a cool problem” in the 90s to “find a way to make lots of money for founders” after the Net Crash and more often than not the chosen way to make money was sell the company to investors rather than actually selling anything to customers, so the tech just needed to look like “the next big money maker” in order to get said investor money and “tech” messaging became dominated by investor hype.
The almost pure-grifer incentives and spirit I saw become dominant in Startups from the 00s now seems to pervade the whole Tech industry.
Pretty much. The industry was for ‘those nerds’ in the days, then dot-com came and holy shit, money to be made, but for a time, let the nerds cook because the investor class had no idea and kind of knew they had no idea.
Then the crash put the investor class firmly at the wheel and the industry has been significantly distorted since then, motivation wise.
Clearly good things have happened, but there’s always this anti-user angle at play now.
hey google why do i love my children
“This is an interesting question, why do you love your children?”
“omg it’s sentient”
Gork, is this true?
Mork, where is Mindy?
You made me imagine a Gorn AI. It doesn’t answer your questions it just keeps trying to fight you to the death.
You should probably keep grok away from your kids.
So AI is there to help psychopaths connect with family and wider society
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