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Comment How it probably went down (Score 4, Insightful) 28

PHB1: "We have to do something AI-ish, everyone else is!"

PHB2: "Here's one, have bots compile podcasts from our news articles."

PHB1: "Brilliant! Make it so."

[months later]

PHB2: "Um, the podcast bot has been making silly errors. Should we keep it?"

PHB1: "How is our competition doing with their AI?"

PHB2: "They suck also."

PHB1: "Okay, let's keep it so we can have AI on our brochures and resumes."

Comment Real world similarity on the data side (Score 1) 58

I worked with a sociopath I'll call "Bill" who we strongly suspect deleted and sabotaged many things. Mayhem had a long history of following Bill, as we asked former colleagues to make sure we were not losing our minds. We learned to back-up and document stuff like crazy to work around it. Bill seemed to have a lot of experience covering his tracks, such as knowing which systems didn't keep logs.

Comment Stupid distraction. Focus. (Score 1) 28

There are too many companies vying for the auto-drive business already. It's a long learning curve with the potential for glorious PR disasters. Ya don't want to go there.

Maybe Rivian are afraid China is commoditizing EV's such that they have to find a value-added niche or die.

Comment Re:Just a RIF? (Score 1) 38

Couldn't shareholders sue their pants off for such a lie...if caught? Enough companies seem to be hiding slumps behind AI bs that the first successful legal team will have to skill to quickly slap the others.

Wells Fargo has been losing sales for a while now because their ghost-service-add-on scam gave them a bad reputation.

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