Audiences attending the SXSW premiere of “The Fall Guy,” starring Ryan Gosling, were not happy about having to watch a sizzle reel before the movie that touted the promises of AI.
AI is a tool that makes us X% more productive (X is still debatable and bound to change)
But instead of making our job X% easier or let us earn X% more, work X% less, corporations are hellbent to fire X% of the workforce because that makes the most money.
The fuck is a “sizzle reel”. I mean, I get what it probably is from context, but who comes up with this shit
I am generally confused as to how you’ve never heard the term before and are just assuming it’s a new phrase.
Da fug is a sizzle reel. Sounds like a term 1st graders came up with…
A short video normally no longer than 3 minutes designed to show off a product, usually in the form of a montage.
It’s an old term so I can’t imagine how you could live your life and not hear the term.
There’s no need to be a dick about it, just because you know a something doesn’t mean everyone else must also know it. I can guarantee there’s common terms you aren’t familiar with. Especially when you consider that this is marketing jargon with common alternate terms (eg demo reel).
If people are going to be dicks about not knowing the term I’m going to be a dick about knowing the term.
When and in which context would I have heard this?
When
Any time a product is being shown off.
Context
Fucking anything. Apple showing off its new iPhone features, a studio showing clips from its upcoming shows, and an actor showcasing their previous work.
AI has all the popularity of the spoiled vaping neighbor kid and his new drone.
Sadly it’s still ragingly popular in the tech start up / tech bro / LinkedIn cringe world.
My job is, among other things, ML related…I try to warn them off of this rhetoric all the time but they can’t stop being distracted by the shiny jingling keys.
Businesses love it because it will vaporize the workforce. Consumers hate it because they know they’re going to get a severely degraded experience in return.
and tech workers have mixed feelings about it, because it’s made their job 10x easier whilst making them 10x more expendable
What? No it hasn’t.
Which part of my statement are you objecting to. I can definitely say the first part is true (N=20), and say the second part is somewhat true and growing (N=5), from my own personal observations of friends, family, and colleagues.
found the AI
guess I found the new “ok, boomer” blanket dismissal phrase… this will be a fun decade
Fuck Off Shillbot 9000
There are impressionable youths for you to lie to elsewhere
Carter’s urge to “be an AI thinker” didn’t go over well. “You know your business is going to be disrupted. You need to stop resisting and start learning,” she said, her words drowned out by the crowd.
Stop resisting!!
“Disrupted”. Grooooaaannn
You don’t like unemployment or being paid less so the billionaires can take more? Why are you so anti-progress?
