“AI Is Not Replacing Workers” And Other Lies About AI
Here are some lies companies have been telling us related to AI.
So far, we have seen many companies launching products with the popular “AI-powered” tagline as a marketing tactic. However, due to this rush to release AI products as quickly as possible, we see that these products often have little relevance to users or simply don’t work.
For example, a package delivery company called DPD implemented an AI online chat to answer customer questions. However, the implementation was a complete failure. It was not only useless in responding to relevant questions about each customer’s order, but also generated quotes from poems or, in some cases, curses, so we can say it ended up ignoring the very rules it was programmed to follow.
Here’s another clear example from Australia. A group of academics used AI-generated material in their presentation to the Australian Parliament regarding an investigation into the financial audits and consulting services provided by the Big Four to various banks in the country.
What do you think happened?
The AI invented a lot of information, including scandals that never existed, implicating Deloitte and KPMG, who had nothing to do with the investigation and no connection to it. It’s…