On: AI's Affordability Crisis

[stingraycharles]

> Even some of my team members were talking about the placebo effect AI has had on a lot of C-Suite folks.

What do you mean placebo effect? They thought things were created with AI while they actually weren’t?

[gazebo2 → stingraycharles]

Probably meaning C-Suite thought productivity was up because of AI, either because A) metrics showed high AI usage or more commits/LOC or B) we're mandating AI usage, why wouldn't it increase?

[steveBK123 → stingraycharles]

For a lot of C-suite there has been more of a fast-follow approach to AI. CEO hears 3rd hand what competitors are doing, tells his CTO to "do AI" and "hire a head of AI".

So a lot of motion (do AI) was created without a destination (product outcome). The motion was what was being measured (we are doing AI).

[grebc → steveBK123]

Headlines is what matters at the executive and board level. Start measuring things and they might not be able to spin a story to sell.

For a large part of society we have management in leadership positions.