The AI Budget Assistant

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  • A long time ago, I learned the painful lesson that most people believe that if the computer generated it, it must be true and accurate. It took me a while during that time to a) make sure that I could verify the totals coming out of the report made sense, and b) getting my users/recipients to understand that while I could program the computer to add and subtract, my knowledge of the business was not sufficient 100% of the time to know 100% if the correct numbers were being added and subtracted properly, so that c) if they were not comfortable with the results, that I needed time with them to understand how to verify my totals. So based on that, while I appreciate an AI that can review past expenditures and forecast what the future might require, I definitely want to review what it comes up with before I pass that info up the line.

     

    Luther

  • A long time ago, I learned the painful lesson that most people believe that if the computer generated it, it must be true and accurate. It took me a while during that time to a) make sure that I could verify the totals coming out of the report made sense, and b) getting my users/recipients to understand that while I could program the computer to add and subtract, my knowledge of the business was not sufficient 100% of the time to know 100% if the correct numbers were being added and subtracted properly, so that c) if they were not comfortable with the results, that I needed time with them to understand how to verify my totals. So based on that, while I appreciate an AI that can review past expenditures and forecast what the future might require, I definitely want to review what it comes up with before I pass that info up the line.

     

    Luther

  • Here is something that people need to understand about AI and data analytics in general:

    "The most easily measurable metrics not always the most relevant metrics."

    My thoughts are that worthwhile employers are not going to let an AI tell them how to stack rank people based on metrics like number of Slack applause or number of lines of code written, etc.

    If a company is letting an AI tell them who to let go, then that's probably a symptom of a more general and chronic problem with the organization itself, and most of the talent has disembarked the ship voluntarily.

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • One would hope that we're not listening to others blindly, whether human or AI. I suspect good companies will use AI well and bad ones, well, they're already bad.

  • I've seen a post from Jeff Moden calling AI a Consensus Engine.  There is a lot of truth in that.

    One would hope that AI wouldn't decide to eliminate its own food source i.e. data.  The onus is on us to make sure that whatever AI is being fed, it includes information that reveals the truth as to how important data is to an organisation.

    You can be the most brilliant person on earth, quietly doing stuff that makes sure that things that people take for granted can be taken for granted.    If no-one knows what it is you do then your position within the organisation is at risk.  I have seen technically capable people let go in favour of those with lesser technical skills and greater political skills.  It is all about what an external actor sees.

     

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