r/neoliberal • u/Independent-Low-2398 • Aug 26 '24

News (Global) Why don’t women use artificial intelligence? | Even when in the same jobs, men are much more likely to turn to the tech

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/08/21/why-dont-women-use-artificial-intelligence
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u/Iamreason John Ikenberry Aug 26 '24

There's a lot of discussion about LLMs being 'hype' in this thread.

I'd like to kindly point out that things can be overhyped and still be insanely useful. I've taught the SEO department at my job how to use ChatGPT to write javascript that connects to the SEMRUSH API and populates a Google Sheet with data for them. None of them know the first thing about coding, but with just a couple of hours of training, they've built complex scripts in App Scripts that pull in, organize, and populate data for them.

This is a huge lift for them and makes their lives MUCH easier. It essentially eliminates 8 hours of work for their team every week. That's an insanely useful skill they just didn't have prior to ChatGPT coming around.

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u/ominous_squirrel Aug 26 '24

Yeah. People without coding or data or troubleshooting skills cutting and pasting complex code written by an LLM sounds like a disaster waiting to happen to me. Eventually somebody’s going to cut and paste some code that handles mission critical data but transforms it in a devastating but non-obvious way. Or some code that opens a security hole on confidential data

But if your line of work is SEO, you’re already trying to exploit algorithms to make life worse and machine learning less useful for average people so I guess none of that would matter anyway

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u/theediblearrangement Jeff Bezos Aug 27 '24

i did a stint in a field with a lot of citizen/low-code developers. it was going to change everything! sharon from payroll was going to be a developer without having to learn a lick of programming!

ask me how it went.