I think the best part about this is the guy is saying that AI = 0. I want to hope that’s intentional but I know it’s not.
AI is standing in for the relativistic mass fraction. The faster the hype machine spins, the more AI matters.
All you need to know is that he labeled himself as a consultant. Which reminds me of this joke.
Once upon a time there was a shepherd tending his sheep at the edge of a country road. A brand new Jeep Grand Cherokee screeches to a halt next to him.
The driver, a young man dressed in a Brioni suit, Cerrutti shoes, Ray-Ban glasses, Jovial Swiss wrist watch and a BHS tie gets out and asks the shepherd: “If I guess how many sheep you have, will you give me one of them?” The shepherd looks at the young man, then looks at the sprawling field of sheep and says: “Okay.”
The young man parks the SUV, connects his notebook and wireless modem, enters a NASA site, scans the ground using his GPS, opens a database and 60 Excel tables filled with algorithms, then prints a 150 page report on his high tech mini printer. He then turns to the shepherd and says:"You have exactly 1,586 sheep here. "
The shepherd answers: "That’s correct, you can have your sheep."The young man takes one of the animals and puts it in the back of his vehicle. The shepherd looks at him and asks: “Now, if I guess your profession, will you pay me back in kind?” The young man answers: “Sure.” The shepherd says: “You are a consultant.” “Exactly! How did you know,” asks the young man? Very simple, answers the shepherd. “First, you came here without being called. Second, you charged me a fee to tell me something I already knew. Third, you do not understand anything about my business and I’d really like to have my dog back.”
A brand new Jeep Grand Cherokee screeches to a halt next to him. The driver, a young man dressed in a Brioni suit, Cerrutti shoes, Ray-Ban glasses, Jovial Swiss wrist watch and a BHS tie
As a long time consultant, this reminded me of Are you a prostitute or are you a consultant?
Specifically, “The client always thinks your “cut” of your billing rate is higher than it actually is, and in turn, expects miracles from you.”
I do NOT miss being yelled at by some middle management Kevin about how I’m charging them $275 per hour to justify their getting whatever crazy shit isn’t in the purchase agreement. I wish I made $275/hour. That’d be amazing.
My old boss used to say, “a consultant is someone who borrows your watch and then charges you when you ask for the time”
Who let the tedX drone out of their cage?
This is why businesspeople are kept in cages away from the scientist and engineer enclosures
Alternate take: this is the same sort of mark self-sorting that scam artists use.
A reasonable person isn’t gonna reply to a typo-ridden email from a Nigerian prince. But those few who do are going to be easy to get everything from.
Imagine you’re an executive at the company your dad founded. You’re an idiot. Everyone knows you’re an idiot. But you think you’re smart. This guy is willing to consult with you about how your company will use AI (for a modest fee, of course). You don’t understand AI, but you think you do, and you just need someone to help with the details. And everyone has to nod their heads and agree to pay him because they’re afraid of getting fired.
You don’t have to fool everyone.
I have watched those exact guys eat an organization I worked for alive. At the end, they had like… 10 business consultants and 1 junior engineer. At an electronics engineering company.
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Two can play that game, BiG gUy! Here goes:
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Hi, mom!As someone who studied CS at uni for 3 years I saw first hand how there’s plenty of idiots in this field. Two of my classmates identified as Nazis and thought that the holocaust didn’t happen, besides a significant chunk leaning to the right more generally.
There’s plenty of really smart people working in the field of AI, but there’s also plenty of people who just think they’re smart.
I think this pretty much applies to all fields. Everything looks complicated and hard to outside people, but once you get into the field, you realize that most people are just average.
Plus with very specialized fields you get the effect of “really great at this one thing and absolutely nothing else”.
If that One Thing ends up being worth a lot of money, these people often end up with a SUPER inflated sense of self importance…
AI is the crypto of 2024. Every Tom Dick and Harry is suddenly an expert in AI
And shilling it.
Make it stop.
I’m like 90% sure that post was AI generated
The 10% case it’s not is even worse though.
Business homps trying to do math with no understanding or background smacks of clergy trying to do philosophy or athletes composing a symphony, sure you can try it but practically nobody is interested in your uninformed amateur gibberish nonsense.
This is so terrible it physically pains me.
This is terrible physics. It pains me
So AI = E - mc2?
That’s some crazy physics right there.
So AI = 0? Sounds about right.
You can suggest that. It shows the world that you’re an idiot, but you are technically allowed to suggest it.
Are those AI evangelists real? Or are they products or their products?
They sound like the latter to say the least.
This guy’s a consultant, he has to talk big.
There’s currently a ton of hype around LLMs, so companies are willing to spend a lot of money. And where there’s money to be made, scammers aren’t far away.
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We the People Who Work In Tech, welcome you to the World of bullshit meisters making insane stuff up around your domain expertise area.
We’ve been living in it since at least the late 90s.
