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KPMG's AI report turns into a demo of AI hallucinations

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Re: KPMG's AI report turns into a demo of AI hallucinations

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Post by fakedang »

tempest_ wrote: post #20
inigyou wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Consulting has never been about the advice. As I understand it, it's about the prestige of the network that delivers the advice.

You are paying a fall guy to come in and gather data or implement something you want to do but don't have a ton of evidence for. That way if shit goes south you can blame them and if it succeeds you get the credit. Their entire job is more related to corporate politics than prestige. Maybe it was in the past.

Point is, Sam the hobo could be a fairly cheap scapegoat. No premium either.

Re: KPMG's AI report turns into a demo of AI hallucinations

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Post by probably_wrong »

gdhkgdhkvff wrote: post #19
ahartmetz wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every report about AI problems has this comment. Just one more model, bro.

And every report about AI problems has this comment. Just one more failed use of AI and then AI will stop being useful and go away forever, bro.

I think you're misreading the parent comment.

As an example: Tesla has promised unsupervised self-driving for its cars for the last 10 years. Every year the promise is "it will be here soon", and yet this year we found out that the promises from 2019 are never going to materialize because the hardware isn't enough [1].

That's not to say that electric vehicles are going to go away, nor that supervised self-driving isn't useful. But it does mean that there are some things that the technology just can't do and that constantly arguing "the next version will fix it" without any evidence is not productive.

[1] https://www.motortrend.com/features/the-problem-with-tesla-u...

Re: KPMG's AI report turns into a demo of AI hallucinations

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Post by JesseTG »

fakedang wrote: post #21
tempest_ wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are paying a fall guy to come in and gather data or implement something you want to do but don't have a ton of evidence for. That way if shit goes south you can blame them and if it succeeds you get the credit. Their entire job is more related to corporate politics than prestige. Maybe it was in the past.

Point is, Sam the hobo could be a fairly cheap scapegoat. No premium either.

"Why did you hire some hobo from behind a Wendy's for corporate consulting?"

Re: KPMG's AI report turns into a demo of AI hallucinations

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Post by inigyou »

cyanydeez wrote: post #18
Foobar8568 wrote: post #17

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It's more about either putting the blame on an external party who are the "experts", and big4 can't be wrong. And if things go well, it's due to the signing person greatness.

i believe theyre just third party rubber stamps for CEOs

I believe they also usefully cross-pollinate advice between different CEOs about how to make themselves and their shareholders richer. They can suggest something that worked for a different company.

Re: KPMG's AI report turns into a demo of AI hallucinations

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Post by neonstatic »

inigyou wrote: post #16
neonstatic wrote: post #9

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It's the 2026 version of "two more weeks"

Is that referring to COVID? The USA never started the clock on its first two weeks.

Yes, but not just COVID - it was the favorite fad around that time. When Trump lost the election there was a wave of grifters promising a reckoning to his fanbase with goal posts being moved roughly every two weeks.

Re: KPMG's AI report turns into a demo of AI hallucinations

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Post by ahartmetz »

gdhkgdhkvff wrote: post #19
ahartmetz wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every report about AI problems has this comment. Just one more model, bro.

And every report about AI problems has this comment. Just one more failed use of AI and then AI will stop being useful and go away forever, bro.

Nah, it's useful but needs to be treated with suspicion due to persistent issues. Very persistent so far, not fixed or even improved much by new models, which is my point.

Re: KPMG's AI report turns into a demo of AI hallucinations

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Post by fakedang »

JesseTG wrote: post #23
fakedang wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Point is, Sam the hobo could be a fairly cheap scapegoat. No premium either.

"Why did you hire some hobo from behind a Wendy's for corporate consulting?"

"What difference does it make when we're calling KPMG?"
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