Protecting Engineers' Skills in the AI Era

(spectrum.ieee.org)

22 points | by rbanffy 1 hour ago

5 comments

  • matherial 45 minutes ago
    This appears to be a completely AI-generated article, in which AI is telling us how to protect ourselves against AI. I don't know what's going over at IEEE, but every article from them that I've seen in the past year is like that and I really don't understand what's the long game.
    • randomblock1 10 minutes ago
      The writer is the CEO of... whatever this is: https://auraspark.com/

      Completely slopped up website, zero human touch. I would even go so far as to call them a hyprocrite, for getting AI to do all that for them instead of, you guessed it, training a junior engineer to do it.

    • r_lee 42 minutes ago
      it seems like the entire world is in some kind of delusional trance, generating "value" with these AI slop articles and AI art

      or maybe it's just that I can't imagine people actually putting their time into reading this all when they pick up on the LLMisms. maybe they'll just stop reading these articles altogether

      • alexjplant 1 minute ago
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      • lightandlight 3 minutes ago
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      • Xirdus 20 minutes ago
        With been in delusional trance for 30+ years generating "value" in form of endless documents, analyses, memos, presentations, reviews, reports, and so on and so forth.

        The only thing that changed recently is that producing documents is now easier than ever.

        • _dark_matter_ 13 minutes ago
          Strong disagree. Do not conflate hard, human created works with AI slop.
  • rawgabbit 54 minutes ago
    Quote:

         A perfectly optimized system that produces incompetent operators is not optimized at all. It has simply moved its failure mode somewhere the spreadsheet can’t see it.
    • ddj231 17 minutes ago
      The second sentence is an ai generation tell. Idk why ai always tries these sort of “wow you” sentences. The tone is pretty off putting once you’ve experienced it enough times.
      • carabiner 15 minutes ago
        Obsession with invisible/quiet/ghosts
    • CamperBob2 33 minutes ago
      Technically I suppose a perfectly-optimized system doesn't need operators, competent or otherwise.
  • SA9G 38 minutes ago
    The nuclear powerplant operator dilemma reminds me of the design flaw in "self-driving" cars that want a human to take control when things go wrong. A human who is not driving is not paying attention and lacks the spatial awareness to take immediate control in a critical situation... Then again, quite a few people don't seem to be paying attention while driving. Sigh.
    • Xirdus 18 minutes ago
      It's not a design flaw, it's a feature - a built-in scapegoat for everything that goes wrong!
  • myko 13 minutes ago
    > The causal story is still contested, and honesty requires saying so.

    This slop is embarrassing