What does "AI-first bank" even mean? A giant sucking sound of the working economy going into the pockets of the already too rich?

This will be somewhat off-topic, but, I'm not letting that stop me. There was a game called Star Control II, which had a series of inter-planetary races. Once of which where called the "Druuge". Point being, they were pretty molevolant, and there was
a feature of one of their ships which litterally throw onboard crew members into a furnace as a means to generate energy for the ship.

I feel like we are moving more and more to that level of regard to each other. We allow such terrible treatment of each other so long as we have bits of paper saying it's somehow justified. Anyhoo--it's nevertheless fun reading, yet disturbing in how close things are becoming "Druuge-ish" around here.

If you are curious, search for them here:

https://www.star-control.com/h...

can we refer to them as music cartels, music labels is just to benign a term. Perhaps Music IP cartels?

When the goal of all industries becomes simply making the stock value grow, and you build mechanisms to make this as 'efficient' as possible, you can't be suprised if the process inbetween i.e. the actual work becomes meaningless.

If anything, "AI" and all the hullabuloo around it has stripped the romance and sense of identity from coding and IT jobs in general--at least for me. As with any skill or craft, there is a joy in the process towards skill acquisition and mastery; watching positive change towards some ideal you are working towards. And a seeming sense of culture in how things were done in the past and how the present may or may not relate to that. How things are communicated to other people and their history becomes meaningless to power structures in the world of "AI"--or within the presense of it's illusion. In a sense it's a violation of cultural identity for the sake of something unclear and undefined and constantly changing, yet you are told you have to babysit it, instruct it, and deal with it's output.

There is no direct link to the work being done and a sense of accomplishment, I can put an axe to wood and gain more satisfaction than working with AI. Can I or anybody in the industry say that there is a reasonable career or future with benefits when it's clear that the deep pockets and incentive are structured in such a way as to guarantee that won't happen? We are seeing an unimaginable amount of capital being put into a process where we really have no input as to what the goals are, just "AI" or "GenAI" or all sorts of undefined nonsense.

Consider the opportunity cost of the money involved--what could it have done where it to be invested in well known processess that are known to return a value. If this isn't an example of market failure, then what would you call it?

As (Marc & Lynne Benioff LLC) own Time Magazine since 2018, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., I'm sure that's got nothing to do with it.

Seriously, we've all had 'AI' screeming at us from every single device, now we need it in printed text as well--I'm sick and tired of it.

I'm all for showing progress but at the same time I don't like what amounts to PR fluff to generate false-hope. Slashdot Editors, please title things with the appropriate skepticism and don't give into the temptation to click-bate or take pharma news-release info at face value.

Readers and followers of science subjects have long become tired of the "WE GOT IT GUYS"->"Oh shit it didn't work" treadmill so please post things with **definite** and **verifiable** i.e. ***reproduced*** results.

Also, given the notes by the editors on the paper amyloid beta theory and potential fabricated results of some fundamental research see: https://www.nature.com/article...

Please tread carefully and point out PR for what it is.