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I suspect this will happen all over with in a few years, AI was good enough at first, but over time reality and the AI started drifting apart
They haven't drifted apart, they were never close in the first place. People have been increasingly confident in the models because they've increasingly sounded more convincing, but the tenuous connection to reality has been consistently off.
Yeah it's not even drift. It's just smoke and mirrors that looks convincing if you don't know what you're talking about. It's why you see writers say "AI is great at coding, but not writing" and then you see coders say "AI is great at writing, but not coding."
If you have any idea what good looks like, you can immediately recognize AI ain't it.
For a fun example, at my company we had a POC done by a very well known AI company. It was supposed to analyze a MS Project schedule, then compare tasks in that schedule to various data sources related to to tasks, then flag potential schedule risks. In the demo to the COO, they showed the AI look at a project schedule and say "Task XYZ could be at risk due to vendor quality issues or potential supply chain issues."
The COO was amazed. Wow it looked through all this data and came back with such great insight. Later I dug under the hood and found that it wasn't looking at any data behind the scenes at all. It was just answering specifically "what could make a project task at risk?" and then giving a hypothetical answer.
Anyone using AI to make any sort of decision is basically doing the equivalent of Googling your issue and then taking the top response as gospel. Yeah that might work for a few basic things, but anything important that requires any thought whatsoever is going to fail spectacularly.
I've always thought of this as being just like Hollywood. If you have expertise in whatever field they present an expert in, it's painful how off they are but it lookks fine for everyone outside the field of expertise.
AI is literally trained to get the right answer but not actually perform the steps to get to the answer. It's like those people that trained dogs to carry explosives and run under tanks, they thought they were doing great until the first battle they used them in they realized that the dogs would run under their own tanks instead of the enemy ones, because that's what they were trained with.
Holy shit, that's what they get for being so evil that they trained dogs as suicide bombers.
And then, the very same CEOs that demanded the use of AI in decision making will be the ones that blame it for bad decisions.
while also blaming employees
Probably more this, the idea to use LLMs is good, but the employees just didn't know how to use it right. To say the LLMs are the problem is to admit being wrong, or worse, being gullible in the face of marketing material. The one thing that is drilled in as a first principle of business leadership is to never ever look weak by being wrong or tricked.
What employees?
Of course, it is the employees who used it. /s