I’m required to use AI at work, so I skip training and have claude burn tokens on a summary of the transcript which I won’t read. Sometimes job requirements handle each other.
Me attending "AI University" at work today
Submitted 4 days ago by ccunning@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 4 days ago
You are doing it wrong, you need to get Claude to summarise the summary until you get down to a one sentence, peak efficiency
SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 4 days ago
don’t forget the no mistakes part
AmyAye@nord.pub 4 days ago
Now I want to try dking this.
“Summarize this in 500 words or less” -> “Whats the Cliffnotes 100 word version of this.” -> “Whats the quick bullet point version of this.” -> “Whats a good single word to summarise this bullet point.”
Seimhe@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Daedskin@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Before I got laid off, I was told by my manager of the company I was contracted to that people higher than him were wondering why I hadn’t installed the copilot extension in vscode; he strongly recommended I do so. So I did install it. I then proceeded to immediately set the ignored file types to “*” (which, for those who might not know, is shorthand for “everything”.) I didn’t hear anything about it afterwards.
AmyAye@nord.pub 4 days ago
The worst part about these sorts of training courses, in my experience, they don’t even teach anything. Its just a bunch of buzzward jargon trying to sell you on the topic.
Opinions on AI aside, I don’t need to be pitched on using AI, (or many other topics) as training. Give me actual training. “Do X, see what happened? Now try Y, see how its different, these are why they are different/better/worse than Z, these are ways you would use X, Y, or Z.”
Flower@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
That’s why there is the *does anybody have a question" part of the training. It’ll be especial fun when you start asking about the legal liability for AI output.
EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
“Ooh, sorry, my religious beliefs prohibit me from using AI models as they have been made using stolen intellectual property, and I am not able to participate in theft.”
I used the Christian Bible to get out of pushing credit cards at a previous job
eyekaytee@lemmy.world 3 days ago
And this is why you’re unemployed
EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Great assumption there, chief.
I’ve never recieved pushback on it, but okay.
PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I am ignoring the “required” ai training notices until the absolute end. Which could be sooner than we think!
BioDriver@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Use AI to summarize AI university
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 4 days ago
You’re lucky you got the eyeball lubricant they just threw sand in mine.
ccunning@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I count my blessings every day…
Whirling_Ashandarei@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Feeling this - I’ve been unwillingly tapped because I’m “knowledgeable” about AI after I did a presentation a while ago that was literally about the downsides of it…
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yeah… my company has been shoving AI down our throats as a magic pill to win the internets, too
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Wow! So much schooling is required for jobs today! You must be so over qualified!
Still, really cool that your work is paying for your education. This will look GREAT on your resume.
python@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Ugh, my work mandated doing an “AI training” course too that everyone needs to do until October 31st. Luckily I’m leaving the company at the end of September so I can just ignore the deadline.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 days ago
No, you were supposed to be a pro-AI grifter, that is posing as anti-AI for clout, and AI generate the image! (Yes, that happens a lot unfortunately)
DmMacniel@feddit.org 4 days ago
uh a what did you attended?
ccunning@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It’s my gateway to AI excellence. Where I can explore comprehensive training in AI, Generative AI, and Agentic AI, plus tool-specific resources. I can earn certificates at every level to showcase my expertise.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Do the certificates require a quiz? Can you use Ai to complete the quiz? If you do so do you automatically rise the the highest level?
okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 4 days ago
lmao. It reaks of corpo L&D. That patronizing, condescending register of “You’re now in school so prepare to be treated like child again”
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I wonder how much I could get a company to pay for a “certificate” (png) on my website
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
We use Copilot to make memes that we share on Teams. What else are we gonna do with it? It’s useless for anything remotely productive.
crapwittyname@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Copilot is useless. I’ve yet to take less time explaining what I want from it than it would take to do it myself. Very big, one off repetitive tasks -you know, the exact type you want to quickly automate- are never properly understood or executed, and smaller ones need so much refinement that it’s not worth the time. Productivity gain < 0
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
“Welcome to AI University. Artificial Intelligence, or A.I., was created in 19…”
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
[deleted]ccunning@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It’s from A Clockwork Orange.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Not sure if serious
YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth 4 days ago
As a student, I feel this so hard. My school canceled every Master's-level class section with less than 15 students and now I'm stuck in 3 16-week AI/ML-centric classes. I suppose I'll at least be well prepared to sit through useless mandatory trainings once I enter the workforce, if I can find a job. I'd say I'm more than ready to graduate so I can be rid of this AI bullshit but I think I really just want to move somewhere remote and become a hermit.
f314@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The corporate mindset leaking into every aspect of society 🤮 Like, where are you supposed to specialize beyond large classes if not at goddamn masters level in uni?! Insanity.
YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth 4 days ago
I know right?? I actually feel cheated because I was promised something the school failed to offer to me. They had me write a review of the program this past semester and I was not particularly kind.
At least learning resources for my actual areas of interest are generally freely available to learn on my own time... and an MS looks good on a resume...
I'm actually considering work in the public sector at this point so I can have a work/life balance and actual benefits. Used to be the private sector had better long-term career prospects, but tbh I'd rather take the pay cut and escape the corporate dehumanization.
The FOSS community has been a great outlet for my actual interests because I can use what I know to help people instead of feeding into the technocratic slop machine. It's also been helpful in finding areas where I'd enjoy specializing.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 4 days ago
You’d think so, but they’re SO much more boring than that. I’ve now taken the “how to not write your password on a sticky note” training yearly since 2002.
CannonFodder@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Don’t write your password down. Don’t use a password safe. Your password can’t have any words in it, it must be 16 characters with half of them non alphanumeric. And stop forgetting your passwords
AmyAye@nord.pub 4 days ago
I tell coworkers “They don’t make us take ladder training because they don’t think we can climb a ladder, they make us take ladder training so if we fall off a ladder, a lawyer can ask if we were following the ladder training.”
untorquer@quokk.au 4 days ago
That advice was actually relevant in 2002. Now it’s a more secure method.