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(DIR) Post #AKaPgBTHnN7E09giKu by mike@fosstodon.org
2022-06-17T17:22:05Z
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Listening to one of our C level execs talking about a demonstration she received of some new AI/ML technology being developed in house. "We walked through some of their AI/ML innovations, and they're true innovations."This struck me as one of our highest level executives subtly admitting that normally when they use the word "innovation", it's really not."Innovation" has become a word that's so overused that it's virtually meaningless in today's market.Got up. Innovated. Back to bed.
(DIR) Post #AKaQFwHZkE3DJqGANc by mike@fosstodon.org
2022-06-17T17:28:33Z
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She followed that statement up with some historical facts. One of which was the observed anniversary of the first blood transfusion where a 15 year old kid was given sheep's blood, and Elizabeth Holmes was accused of fraud. She referred to both the sheep blood transfusion and Holmes's blood testing "technology" as "innovations".
(DIR) Post #AKaQPvuHznoj3A8KA4 by pj@bitcoinhackers.org
2022-06-17T17:30:24Z
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@mike It's not even innovation though. It's just looking for anomalies in data, to make better decisions, which is not new technology. Same old shit, rebranded as "AI."
(DIR) Post #AKaQiAT6ax5pQN75JQ by mike@fosstodon.org
2022-06-17T17:33:41Z
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@pj Agreed. Most things that are referred to as "innovations", aren't. It's funny that even this particular executive realizes this otherwise she wouldn't have clarified that THESE were TRUE innovations. It's ironic and funny (at least to me) that she makes that distinction for even more stuff that still isn't innovative.
(DIR) Post #AKaQlvGP4INRQRxjMW by TomLarrow@mastodon.social
2022-06-17T17:34:19Z
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@mike one of the orgs at our company named a team "The Innovation Team"Apparently no other team in that org is allowed to do anything innovative
(DIR) Post #AKaRDnutydWGkSCTOS by atommac@fosstodon.org
2022-06-17T17:39:23Z
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@mikeI accidentally innovated all over the floor :(
(DIR) Post #AKaV8roETeVzBmywEq by Corvus@fosstodon.org
2022-06-17T18:23:19Z
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@mike @pj I decided to try beer cold today instead of room temperature. #innovation
(DIR) Post #AKaWYvkSYPjWtDD1Oa by appelgriebsch@fosstodon.org
2022-06-17T18:39:14Z
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@mike you should have a look at „The Myths of innovation“. A real classic from Scott Berkun published 2010… must read!
(DIR) Post #AKaZRclx0WsFs879N2 by kamme@mastodon.xyz
2022-06-17T19:11:31Z
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@mike that’s a bit sad to be honest… It shows how much out of touch you can get, and how dangerous a company exec can be if they want to follow in this “technology and innovation”.
(DIR) Post #AKaZcIIlSQsPZJYBmq by maplemuse@fosstodon.org
2022-06-17T19:13:27Z
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@mike and yet, the chances of this actually being an innovation instead of a standard use case for AI/ML? Probably still cool to solve the problem this way, and it probably looks novel to a C level exec, but this is possibly a case of a non-innovation. Or maybe I'm just overly skeptical of AI/ML claims.
(DIR) Post #AKaemlQCXpdaY6qBO4 by dajbelshaw@fosstodon.org
2022-06-17T20:11:20Z
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@mike well 'innovation' was originally a perjorative term... https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/06/innovation-the-history-of-a-buzzword/277067/
(DIR) Post #AKappl4hODMtq1PhBY by mike@fosstodon.org
2022-06-17T22:15:09Z
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@maplemuse I'm not directly familiar with it, so I can't be sure, but I don't know of my company working on any NEW AI/ML technology. I'd guess this is an "off the shelf" ML technology that we're running our particular data through to get results that are useful to us. Just as "innovative" as every other company doing exactly the same thing.