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[–] [email protected] 250 points 7 months ago (3 children)

All you need to know is that he labeled himself as a consultant. Which reminds me of this joke.

Once upon a time there was a shepherd tending his sheep at the edge of a country road. A brand new Jeep Grand Cherokee screeches to a halt next to him.

The driver, a young man dressed in a Brioni suit, Cerrutti shoes, Ray-Ban glasses, Jovial Swiss wrist watch and a BHS tie gets out and asks the shepherd: "If I guess how many sheep you have, will you give me one of them?" The shepherd looks at the young man, then looks at the sprawling field of sheep and says: "Okay."

The young man parks the SUV, connects his notebook and wireless modem, enters a NASA site, scans the ground using his GPS, opens a database and 60 Excel tables filled with algorithms, then prints a 150 page report on his high tech mini printer. He then turns to the shepherd and says:"You have exactly 1,586 sheep here. "

The shepherd answers: "That's correct, you can have your sheep."The young man takes one of the animals and puts it in the back of his vehicle. The shepherd looks at him and asks: "Now, if I guess your profession, will you pay me back in kind?" The young man answers: "Sure." The shepherd says: "You are a consultant." "Exactly! How did you know," asks the young man? Very simple, answers the shepherd. "First, you came here without being called. Second, you charged me a fee to tell me something I already knew. Third, you do not understand anything about my business and I'd really like to have my dog back."

[–] [email protected] 75 points 7 months ago (1 children)

From my experience working for a management consulting firm. It's more like everyone knows what the problems are and how to fix them, but they are too scared of screwing up to do something about it.

So they hire a consultancy company to tell them what they already knew and take the blame if something goes wrong.

"No one ever gets fired for hiring McKinsey"

[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago

“No one ever get fired for hiring McKinsey”

They fucking should. I mean, I understand why that doesn’t happen, given the world we live in, but man… McKinsey is fucking evil incarnate

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago

My old boss used to say, "a consultant is someone who borrows your watch and then charges you when you ask for the time"

[–] jballs 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A brand new Jeep Grand Cherokee screeches to a halt next to him. The driver, a young man dressed in a Brioni suit, Cerrutti shoes, Ray-Ban glasses, Jovial Swiss wrist watch and a BHS tie

As a long time consultant, this reminded me of Are you a prostitute or are you a consultant?

Specifically, "The client always thinks your “cut” of your billing rate is higher than it actually is, and in turn, expects miracles from you."

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I do NOT miss being yelled at by some middle management Kevin about how I'm charging them $275 per hour to justify their getting whatever crazy shit isn't in the purchase agreement. I wish I made $275/hour. That'd be amazing.

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[–] Randomocity 139 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think the best part about this is the guy is saying that AI = 0. I want to hope that's intentional but I know it's not.

[–] eestileib 21 points 7 months ago

AI is standing in for the relativistic mass fraction. The faster the hype machine spins, the more AI matters.

[–] [email protected] 110 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is so terrible it physically pains me.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

This is terrible physics. It pains me

[–] [email protected] 107 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is why businesspeople are kept in cages away from the scientist and engineer enclosures

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (7 children)

If only. We really need to launch a population cull, their invasive behavior is endangering other species.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

As someone who studied CS at uni for 3 years I saw first hand how there's plenty of idiots in this field. Two of my classmates identified as Nazis and thought that the holocaust didn't happen, besides a significant chunk leaning to the right more generally.

There's plenty of really smart people working in the field of AI, but there's also plenty of people who just think they're smart.

[–] IrateAnteater 46 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think this pretty much applies to all fields. Everything looks complicated and hard to outside people, but once you get into the field, you realize that most people are just average.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago

Plus with very specialized fields you get the effect of "really great at this one thing and absolutely nothing else".

If that One Thing ends up being worth a lot of money, these people often end up with a SUPER inflated sense of self importance..

[–] [email protected] 72 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Alternate take: this is the same sort of mark self-sorting that scam artists use.

A reasonable person isn’t gonna reply to a typo-ridden email from a Nigerian prince. But those few who do are going to be easy to get everything from.

Imagine you’re an executive at the company your dad founded. You’re an idiot. Everyone knows you’re an idiot. But you think you’re smart. This guy is willing to consult with you about how your company will use AI (for a modest fee, of course). You don’t understand AI, but you think you do, and you just need someone to help with the details. And everyone has to nod their heads and agree to pay him because they’re afraid of getting fired.

You don’t have to fool everyone.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I have watched those exact guys eat an organization I worked for alive. At the end, they had like... 10 business consultants and 1 junior engineer. At an electronics engineering company.

https://i.natgeofe.com/n/4c509f20-8730-4cd1-a90b-6681394c92ca/NationalGeographic_1742512_3x2.jpg

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 7 months ago

I can suggest an equation that has the potential to impact the future:

Acetyl-CoA + 3H~2~O + 3NAD^+^ + FAD + ADP + Pi → 2CO~2~ + 3NADH + 3H^+^ + FADH~2~ + CoA-SH + ATP + H~2~O + AI

This combines the Krebs Cycle which relates to glucose metabolism with the addition of artificial intelligence (AI). By including AI in the equation, it symbolises my ability to wank myself to completion without touching my cock, simply by massaging my engorged ego.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 7 months ago (3 children)

These people have zero idea how AI works

[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No, they know how it really works.

You write "AI" on something and you get paid more. It's like "organic" on food.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

These people have zero idea how anything works

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I can suggest an equation that has the potential to change the future...

E = MC² + S

S stands for sandwich...because I'm having one, for lunch...

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago

"P = G + E + block chain

Phenotype = Genotype + Environment, but now the equation respects the contribution of block chain NFTs. with enough bored apes getting slurpjuice, we can revolutionize dementia into a value-add for the marketplace."

  • me, a Technology Management Consultant.
[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago

This is comically stupid

[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

AI=E-mc^2^

AI=0

Therefore, AI is useless.

Thank you for attending my talk.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago (1 children)

AI is the crypto of 2024. Every Tom Dick and Harry is suddenly an expert in AI

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[–] fsxylo 37 points 7 months ago

Who let the tedX drone out of their cage?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't this just mean AI=0?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but that does not mean AI has 0 influence. Rather, AI is a circle, a shape with no beginning or end, suggesting that AI has endless and infinite potential. Now, let's say you want to remove AI from the equation - imagining a world without AI. What happens when you divide by zero? You can't, because dividing by zero is undefined. Thusly, a world (future or past) without AI is now an impossibility. This is simply the laws of mathematics.

  • Property Manager, AI Consultant
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (3 children)

This reminds me of that TEDx (I think it was TEDx) talk where the guy claimed that you could see the letters E=mc^2^ in the Devanagari symbol for Om, as if this revealed some sort of profound truth about the universe.

The funny thing is that that's literally all I remember about that talk. I don't remember what the guy was talking about for the ten to twenty minutes before that point, just that the talk concluded with him looking super self-satisfied while saying something incredibly silly and cringeworthy.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Ted talks went from mildly interesting to Deepak Choprarian nonsense so insanely fast.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I just listened to the most recent Behind the Bastards on forensic 'science' used in court cases and Robert played a clip of one guy who had a Ted talk where he spoke about how he uses divining rods to find dead bodies buried in the ground.

The worst part is this guy is still employed in the field, testifies as an expert witness to get people convicted of crimes, grifts families of missing persons claiming he can find them for a fee based on their body's "unique frequency" (obtained from fingernail clippings), consults/instructs law enforcement on his techniques using taxpayer funds, and worked until recently at the famous body farm at the Univeristy of Tennessee.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Reminds of various evangelical speakers seeing "crosses" in nature or cheese toasties and thinking they're profound. Truly a Christmas miracle that a pair of lines intersect.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

TeChNoLoGy gUrU

Two can play that game, BiG gUy! Here goes:
iγ · δψ = mψ + NFT
Tokens for quantum computing!

EDIT: Quantum Cryptoken Dynamics!
Hey, look at me, I'm a Lemmy spiritual singularity money tech guru now!
Hi, mom!

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago

We the People Who Work In Tech, welcome you to the World of bullshit meisters making insane stuff up around your domain expertise area.

We've been living in it since at least the late 90s.

[–] nehal3m 26 points 7 months ago

LinkedIn lunatic

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago

Just because you had a thought, doesn’t mean you should write a TED talk on it.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

These are the people we've let run our society

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

Business homps trying to do math with no understanding or background smacks of clergy trying to do philosophy or athletes composing a symphony, sure you can try it but practically nobody is interested in your uninformed amateur gibberish nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

You can suggest that. It shows the world that you're an idiot, but you are technically allowed to suggest it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Someone put that bro out to pasture he’s done

[–] hector 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This has literally been written by a LLM, I’m sure of it

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Surprised no one else is saying this. It sounds exactly like an LLM, especially ChatGPT.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So AI = E - mc^2^?

That's some crazy physics right there.

[–] OutOfMemory 20 points 7 months ago

So AI = 0? Sounds about right.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Are those AI evangelists real? Or are they products or their products?

They sound like the latter to say the least.

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[–] xionzui 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I’m like 90% sure that post was AI generated

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

I have never met a real linkedin Poster before. They must be amazing in person.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

I don't want to be on this planet anymore

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Makes perfect sense. More AI means less matter and more energy.

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