That’s because the answer is “yes but it’ll cost you”
Increased IT spending makes productivity worse, and here is why
- Thread starter David Clapson
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That’s because the answer is “yes but it’ll cost you”
I worked for a scale up. I noticed something in some Sales material I accidentally saw that was complete nonsense. I checked with the engineer in charge of that area and it was clear the Sales stuff was saying the product had functionality it surely didn't. So we got it removed from the Sales materials.
A few months later, a very irate Sales director calls a meeting. He wants to know why we've removed that great functionality from the product. We explain at length that the product never had that functionality and we were actually correcting a mistake in the Sales material.
Apparently potential customers loved that functionality and we were terrible people for removing it. Me and the engineer sat there, trying not to roll our eyes because he clearly didn’t/didn't want to get our point.
WouldBe
Dislicksick
I wrote a program for the last company I worked for to prevent wrong parts being delivered to the production line. But because I wasn't qualified as a programmer (despite writing programs for over 10 years) the IT department would only allow it to be used if the professionals came in to rewrite it. It was agreed that I could sit in with the programmers to "learn" something. At the end several people in IT said there was more learning done by the professionals, from me, than I learnt . 
What does this even mean !
WouldBe
Dislicksick
I didn't have a certificate to say I could program.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
David Clapson have you read the article you link to yet?
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
surely you can knock one up
nogojones
spelling is overrated
I think you need to have completed a course in MS Paint to do that
I mean the objection is bullshit !
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nogojones
spelling is overrated
seems legit
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Starry Wisdom
give him a score, he'll sign anything
pseudonarcissus
fluttering and dancing
imagine if you could use AI to create a paperclip that would magically appear to offer advice on the way you were formatting your document...that would be ace!AI and the paperclip problem
Philosophers have speculated that an AI tasked with a task such as creating paperclips might cause an apocalypse by learning to divert ever-increasing resources to the task, and then learning how to resist our attempts to turn it off. But this column argues that, to do this, the paperclip-making...voxeu.org
This is a genuinely amazing game based on that idea (for PCs or laptops, won't work on your phone): https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.htmlAI and the paperclip problem
Philosophers have speculated that an AI tasked with a task such as creating paperclips might cause an apocalypse by learning to divert ever-increasing resources to the task, and then learning how to resist our attempts to turn it off. But this column argues that, to do this, the paperclip-making...
weltweit
Well-Known Member
Senior people often don't realise the curious nature of their employees. For example one asked their favourite electronics engineer to fix his laptop, on which everyone's salaries were saved, their favourite electronics engineer found that pretty quickly. Another asked for assistance only for it to be found out that they had a particular porn addiction.
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
Not sure that the paperclip problem is anything like the one described in the OP. Paperclip maximisers are an example of what can happen if things go horribly right. Instead of tanking productivity, paperclip maximisers end up converting the entire observable universe into paperclips, or they are destroyed in the attempt.
newme
Giant in Pastyland now
I got given a CAD laptop for excel work, things actually do what you ask without a tea break being required! Sadly a short contract but at least it will make my next role seem disappointing hardware wise.
I'm in public procurement amongst other things, the idea of having a item just being pitched to someone is weird.
We had at least 2 of the project manager, person who put the business case together, procurement person and possibly department head/head of service/head of procurement looking at proposals for scoring and usually a 3 person scoring matrix.
Then again we did also have counsellors push through stupid shit on the basis it was in their area... that cost 200k and almost the future of an entire small business programme once.
stuff_it
Too skool for cool
Someone's going to have to train users on all this new stuff as well....
stuff_it
Too skool for cool
The well-known "Vista effect", where vast sums of processing power is used up on incidental animations and transparent folder windows with smooth dragging....
stuff_it
Too skool for cool
Working with an SAP procurement solution consultancy taught me how many people in business haven't got even the slightest clue how or what goes on in enterprise procurement, much less how software could help.
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