▲ 2294 ▼ Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AI (futurism.com) submitted 2 years ago by morrowind@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world 375 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 79 points 2 years ago (1 child) Take the hint, MBAs. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago* (1 child) They don't care. At the moment AI is cheap for them (because some other investor is paying for it). As long as they believe AI reduces their operating costs*, and as long as they're convinced every other company will follow suit, it doesn't matter if consumers like it less. Modern history is a long string of companies making things worse and selling them to us anyway because there's no alternatives. Because every competitor is doing it, too, except the ones that are prohibitively expensive. [*] Lol, it doesn't do that either permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] simpleslipeagle@lemmynsfw.com 17 points 2 years ago (2 children) Assuming MBAs can do math might be a mistake. I've worked on an MBA pet project that squandered millions in worker time and opportunity cost to save 30k mrc... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) Eh, they understand "number go down" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] netvor@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago and the smarter ones can even look at two or more separate numbers permalink fedilink source parent [–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago I read this article that out of the 10 top Harvard MBA grads 8 of them had have gone to tank the company they were CEOs at. Or something ridiculous. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago* (1 child) They don't care. At the moment AI is cheap for them (because some other investor is paying for it). As long as they believe AI reduces their operating costs*, and as long as they're convinced every other company will follow suit, it doesn't matter if consumers like it less. Modern history is a long string of companies making things worse and selling them to us anyway because there's no alternatives. Because every competitor is doing it, too, except the ones that are prohibitively expensive. [*] Lol, it doesn't do that either permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] simpleslipeagle@lemmynsfw.com 17 points 2 years ago (2 children) Assuming MBAs can do math might be a mistake. I've worked on an MBA pet project that squandered millions in worker time and opportunity cost to save 30k mrc... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) Eh, they understand "number go down" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] netvor@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago and the smarter ones can even look at two or more separate numbers permalink fedilink source parent [–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago I read this article that out of the 10 top Harvard MBA grads 8 of them had have gone to tank the company they were CEOs at. Or something ridiculous. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] simpleslipeagle@lemmynsfw.com 17 points 2 years ago (2 children) Assuming MBAs can do math might be a mistake. I've worked on an MBA pet project that squandered millions in worker time and opportunity cost to save 30k mrc... permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) Eh, they understand "number go down" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] netvor@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago and the smarter ones can even look at two or more separate numbers permalink fedilink source parent [–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago I read this article that out of the 10 top Harvard MBA grads 8 of them had have gone to tank the company they were CEOs at. Or something ridiculous. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 child) Eh, they understand "number go down" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] netvor@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago and the smarter ones can even look at two or more separate numbers permalink fedilink source parent
[–] netvor@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago and the smarter ones can even look at two or more separate numbers permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago I read this article that out of the 10 top Harvard MBA grads 8 of them had have gone to tank the company they were CEOs at. Or something ridiculous. permalink fedilink source parent