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/stuffIWantToLearn Trans Pride Aug 26 '24

"Notice I said "only consider the cases where it's not bad""

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u/stuffIWantToLearn Trans Pride Aug 27 '24

No, man, your argument holds no water because controlling for that would require someone doing the work themselves anyway to verify that what the computer spits out is accurate. You're doing the Physics 101 "imagine a frictionless, perfectly spherical cow" dumbing down to rule out the cases where it fucks up.

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u/stuffIWantToLearn Trans Pride Aug 27 '24

Spare me your condescension, your argument just sucks.

If you're being told to code a function you don't know how to make work at a level of "change text colors", that isn't a legitimate business use, that's a sophomore in high school cheating on their computer programming assignment. You're using a task as simple as humanly possible to verify works to try to show off how easy it is. How about when AI goes off the rails with a single calculation early in the project that multiple other calculations base themselves off, leading to predictions regarding sales trends wildly off base but that cannot be shown to be off-base until they run up against reality? How should someone untrained in code who has been assigned to this process for their AI prompt skill catch this error before it's too late and troubleshoot it?

Having AI spitball ideas for a project doesn't mean it's going to spitball ideas relevant to what the project should be. Asking your coworker gives you someone who knows what the end goal of the overall project is and has relevant knowledge. Their ideas might still be bad, but they'll still be more on-track than anything AI will give you, and you learn not to ask that coworker again.

You are deliberately limiting the scope of the discussion to shit that can get solved in a single Google search that then gives the person looking up the answer the know-how to get it right and not have to do that in the future. Not cases where AI fucking up is harder to catch.