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In reply to the discussion: The Real Reason Vivek Ram. Dumped Doge + My Prediction [View all]
Hekate
(96,029 posts)30. KICK. Many thanks for the link
The Real Reason Vivek Ram. Dumped Doge + My Prediction
This is from a Washington Post article published earlier today:
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Within days, it became clear that Musk’s ambitions were not merely to remake government technology, as some speculated, but to revamp the entire federal bureaucracy. DOGE co-leader Vivek Ramaswamy, the biotech entrepreneur and former GOP presidential candidate, quickly left the project amid differences over Musk’s plans to dismantle government by foregrounding technology and bypassing Congress.
Here's a no-paywall link to the article, which is entitled: In chaotic Washington blitz, Elon Musk’s ultimate goal becomes clear
Here's the thing: AI is not ready for prime time and we all know it. There have been a variety of articles out there telling us this for some time. Here are a few, published last year:
12 famous AI disasters
A few of their examples:
ChatGPT hallucinates court cases
AI algorithms identify everything but COVID-19
Zillow wrote down millions, slashed workforce due to algorithmic home-buying disaster
McDonald’s ends AI experiment after drive-thru ordering blunders
Dataset trained Microsoft chatbot to spew racist tweets
32 times artificial intelligence got it catastrophically wrong
This article is particularly pertinent to why we cannot have AI operating the U.S. government:
Mass resignation due to discriminatory AI.
Yes, indeed, Dutch parliamentarians had to resign because a faulty algorithm. Even the prime minister had to resign over this one! The story is covered and has a link at the above Live Science link.
Other stories covered in this article:
Medical chatbot's harmful advice
AI sending people into wildfires
Here are some AI disasters covered by MIT Technology Review:
The 8 worst technology failures of 2024
Boeing Starliner
CrowdStrike outage
23andMe
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My prediction: So now we see that Musk's real plan is to install AI in the federal government. This will not fly with anybody, not even his fellow republicans. When this gets known across the board, you're going to see a rapid turning away from Musk. I would say it will take something like 10-12 days for this to get the attention needed to boot this crazy asshole out of the WH. Keep in mind that for this to get traction, the disasters with AI will have to be known, publicized across the spectrum.
You never, ever, ever experiment with a technology on a large scale. That is what Musk is trying to do, and all the decision makers in business and government know you don't enact on a wide scale.
What you do it test market it. An example would be new product introductions. I was one of the marketing managers at McDonalds who helped roll out Chicken McNuggets. We test marketed it in NY, which many considered way, way too big of a market for a new product intro. Usually they test market in places like Peoria (thus the question always asked of a new product, "Will it Play in Peoria?" ) .
The product was a huge success, but never, ever would they have rolled it out across the U.S. in one shot.
In the AI drive-thru test, referred to in one of the above articles, McDonald's experimented with AI in only 100 drive-thrus. They pulled the test because it failed.
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This is what happens when you have a completely inept person like trump as the president. Too stupid to know you don't do something like roll out an unproven technology in the world's largest government. Then you have Musk, who is equally isolated about what really has to happen (he thinks you "just hire people" ), and you get a gigantic disaster like what we are seeing unfold right now.
https://wapo.st/3WRYJOQ
This is from a Washington Post article published earlier today:
snip
Within days, it became clear that Musk’s ambitions were not merely to remake government technology, as some speculated, but to revamp the entire federal bureaucracy. DOGE co-leader Vivek Ramaswamy, the biotech entrepreneur and former GOP presidential candidate, quickly left the project amid differences over Musk’s plans to dismantle government by foregrounding technology and bypassing Congress.
Here's a no-paywall link to the article, which is entitled: In chaotic Washington blitz, Elon Musk’s ultimate goal becomes clear
Here's the thing: AI is not ready for prime time and we all know it. There have been a variety of articles out there telling us this for some time. Here are a few, published last year:
12 famous AI disasters
A few of their examples:
ChatGPT hallucinates court cases
AI algorithms identify everything but COVID-19
Zillow wrote down millions, slashed workforce due to algorithmic home-buying disaster
McDonald’s ends AI experiment after drive-thru ordering blunders
Dataset trained Microsoft chatbot to spew racist tweets
32 times artificial intelligence got it catastrophically wrong
This article is particularly pertinent to why we cannot have AI operating the U.S. government:
Mass resignation due to discriminatory AI.
Yes, indeed, Dutch parliamentarians had to resign because a faulty algorithm. Even the prime minister had to resign over this one! The story is covered and has a link at the above Live Science link.
Other stories covered in this article:
Medical chatbot's harmful advice
AI sending people into wildfires
Here are some AI disasters covered by MIT Technology Review:
The 8 worst technology failures of 2024
Boeing Starliner
CrowdStrike outage
23andMe
----------------------------
My prediction: So now we see that Musk's real plan is to install AI in the federal government. This will not fly with anybody, not even his fellow republicans. When this gets known across the board, you're going to see a rapid turning away from Musk. I would say it will take something like 10-12 days for this to get the attention needed to boot this crazy asshole out of the WH. Keep in mind that for this to get traction, the disasters with AI will have to be known, publicized across the spectrum.
You never, ever, ever experiment with a technology on a large scale. That is what Musk is trying to do, and all the decision makers in business and government know you don't enact on a wide scale.
What you do it test market it. An example would be new product introductions. I was one of the marketing managers at McDonalds who helped roll out Chicken McNuggets. We test marketed it in NY, which many considered way, way too big of a market for a new product intro. Usually they test market in places like Peoria (thus the question always asked of a new product, "Will it Play in Peoria?" ) .
The product was a huge success, but never, ever would they have rolled it out across the U.S. in one shot.
In the AI drive-thru test, referred to in one of the above articles, McDonald's experimented with AI in only 100 drive-thrus. They pulled the test because it failed.
------------
This is what happens when you have a completely inept person like trump as the president. Too stupid to know you don't do something like roll out an unproven technology in the world's largest government. Then you have Musk, who is equally isolated about what really has to happen (he thinks you "just hire people" ), and you get a gigantic disaster like what we are seeing unfold right now.
https://wapo.st/3WRYJOQ
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Elon Musk actually likes cruelty. An actual quote from an Investor that knows him
DSandra
Saturday
#16
In your O.P. either you or the Post article gave him the erroneous tittle of Biotech Entrepreneur which he is not
Botany
Yesterday
#32
This is what happens when people keep telling you you're the smartest man alive.
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