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Re: ChatBCG: Generative AI For Slides

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Post by pcrh »

version_five wrote: post #13
pcrh wrote: post #11

Hilarious. It really goes to show how little intelligence or innovative thinking is needed for entry-level positions in McKinsey, BCG, etc.

It's surprising more people don't go work at those places then, they pay very well

They select based on salesmanship, "polish" and "pedigree".

Re: ChatBCG: Generative AI For Slides

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Post by andirk »

I was surprised it used half of the slides of "obama drone strikes" about the willful neglect for the human toll of civilian deaths [0], in some cases ~90%, (find the bad guy, bomb the entire block). I was expecting more of a synopsis of what happened rather than the issues with it.

The creators should take a look the only cool TechCrunch Disrupt winner, Qwiki, which turned searches in to audio and visual slides [1]. But Yahoo bought it for $50 million, turned down Google's offer thereafter of $150 million, then buried it forever a year later.

[0] https://www.cfr.org/blog/obamas-final-drone-strike-data

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-ZxO4e6Oak

Edit: The 90% refers to a specific date range of "air strikes": "Operation Haymaker, show that between January 2012 and February 2013, U.S. special operations airstrikes killed more than 200 people. Of those, only 35 were the intended targets. During one five-month period of the operation, according to the documents, nearly 90 percent of the people killed in airstrikes were not the intended targets." [2]

[2] https://theintercept.com/drone-papers/the-assassination-comp...

Re: ChatBCG: Generative AI For Slides

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Post by spawarotti »

andirk wrote: post #16

I was surprised it used half of the slides of "obama drone strikes" about the willful neglect for the human toll of civilian deaths [0], in some cases ~90%, (find the bad guy, bomb the entire block). I was expecting more of a synopsis of what happened rather than the issues with it. The creators should take a look the only cool TechCrunch Disrupt winner, Qwiki, which turned searches in to audio and visual slides [1].…

According to [0] the toll of civilian deaths is 9% not ~90%:

> The 542 drone strikes that Obama authorized killed an estimated 3,797 people, including 324 civilians.

Re: ChatBCG: Generative AI For Slides

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Post by hestefisk »

pcrh wrote: post #11

Hilarious. It really goes to show how little intelligence or innovative thinking is needed for entry-level positions in McKinsey, BCG, etc.

How does it do that, exactly? I asked it to provide an overview of the consumer banking market size in Indonesia and it came out with a few bullets on challenges. Hardly intelligent.

Re: ChatBCG: Generative AI For Slides

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Post by andirk »

spawarotti wrote: post #17
andirk wrote: post #16

I was surprised it used half of the slides of "obama drone strikes" about the willful neglect for the human toll of civilian deaths [0], in some cases ~90%, (find the bad guy, bomb the entire block). I was expecting more of a synopsis of what happened rather than the issues with it. The creators should take a look the only cool TechCrunch Disrupt winner, Qwiki, which turned searches in to audio and visual slides [1].…

According to [0] the toll of civilian deaths is 9% not ~90%: > The 542 drone strikes that Obama authorized killed an estimated 3,797 people, including 324 civilians.

Thank you. Edited to be very specific instead of a blanket percentage.
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