Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/mar/11/amazon-artificial-intelligence
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/mar/11/amazon-artificial-intelligence
13 Comments
teft@piefed.social · 38 pts · 175d
Man, sunk cost fallacy is really running rampant in silicon valley.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 175d
Always is.
cRazi_man@europe.pub · 8 pts · 175d
It's not sunk cost fallacy at all. They see this as well worth the investment. They're making people put time into training their AI models. People are basically training the clueless intern who will take their job very soon. AI is done with training on all material that exists online. Now you have to force people to engage with it to give it more training.
moustachio@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 175d
It’s not at risk of taking anyone’s job anytime soon. They have yet to even come close to LLMs being able to “know” what a right answer is. All they’re doing now is generating what their models predict you want to see. That’s why they produce slop that breaks down if you look closely.
Shirasho@lemmings.world · 20 pts · 175d
It may be slower, but they think it is cheaper, thereby making it more profitable. These idiots only see short term profit and don't care about the long term health of the company or the economy.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 175d
Terminator 2 warned us that the future was humanity enslaved to robots.
What they didn't tell us was how stupid the whole thing started.
Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 175d
I hope they go all in and then implode when the ai bubble pops.
zqwzzle@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 175d
It’s their wet dream to be able to get rid of all their workers.
LLMhater1312@piefed.social · 9 pts · 175d
They think its worth the gamble because the ultimate payoff is they won't need to pay humans
moustachio@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 175d
I think they know they’re not going to have infinite humans at their disposal they have now, sometime soon.
They built their bunkers, now they need the subservient labor class they enjoyed.. in the form of AI.
lobut@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 175d
Yeah, my company's like that too. I'm like, why are we spending tokens when we know what the fix is and the AI isn't listening?
I think they believe that we're gaining the skills to navigate the AI?
I get it because it can accelerate a lot of development in certain ways, but like, we're also losing the mental map of the codebase with this. I think it'd matter less for projects but for products ... it's weird to be like, "I never write code any more!" and be proud of it ... although to be fair, I haven't written much code after I became a lead.
VaalaVasaVarde@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 175d
AI is expensive, slow and ineffective, but by Bezos bald head we'll use it!
Bezos is right Amazon has to adopt AI or die trying.
Denjin@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 175d
Please let it be the latter.