We have one? What exactly is our mission statement?...
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I, for one, am starting to get tired of the VP of AI constantly taking credit for work that his team didn’t do. All they do is cheesy training sessions and don’t deliver anything. The real delivery teams of AI are elsewhere. Fire him already.
@3pa Thanks. The worst and most obvious tell is when they have to do something that can’t be done by AI and you wonder how is this the same person. Unfortunately, with the way AI is being pushed, these people are the ones that’s gonna survive.
Who is this VP of AI person and what are we paying him
This guy seems to just be a software engineering manager. I don’t think he even believes in AI if you hear him talk about it.
The most concerning thing is that he doesn’t know our business
@1fn when he flies into Houston for “work,” he only gets wined and dined by vendors and gives talk about basic product management nonsense from a decade ago. I’m not sure he even knows what AI is.
Downside to AI is people that are not too smart to begin with use it to write and communicate in ways they never could do with their own brain power. I know employees that do this and are just hiding behind the curtain using AI to make them look more intelligent than they ever will be. I had an employee send out an email the other day where a two word thank you was all that was needed. He ended up writing a paragraph with words he would never use to basically say thank you. AI does not replace basic intelligence or commonsense, so people need to stop hiding behind AI.
@OP I’ve met him. He is a clown who doesn’t belong in the industry. Just collecting a massive paycheck standing up a team that isn’t doing anything that our business needs or wants. The dude lives in the Bay Area in California for f*k sake
All he’s doing is external engagements on how to use AI in oil and gas even though he knows nothing about oil and gas. VH made a ridiculous hire that makes no sense.
@1ea Agree. Since 2004 I’ve lived in a van down by the river.
@1dg+1k7qe968c I think you are right, and I wish we were all back in the day of Blackberries. Wait until you have a lobor force with 20% or more unemployment and people just looking for a way to survive and take care of their families. We are wiping out the way of live we know and for what. If AI helps cure cancer and other deadly diseases I am all for it, but it will be used for replacing workers and you will have even a larger gap between those that have and those that don't. This stuff seems unreal, but most people have their heads in the sand and will be caught wondering what happened to their way of life. Sometimes just living the simple and basic life is worth way more than ultra high tech. Just last week cloud computing with AWS took many down for about a day. We are giving up our freedoms to be controlled by computers and those that run the show.
@1ah lol. It will be used as a we-pon of war and oppression and increase energy consumption and costs to power vast data centers. I wish you were right, though.
AI is a great technology. Many more analysis can be performed and complex problems can be looked at with this technology that otherwise could never be done unless you had many more people involved. Once quantum computing goes mainstream and becomes integrated with AI there will no stopping AI. This technology might even lead us closer to world peace and a much cleaner environment. Imagine…..
I hope the VP AI creates as much value as the VP DEI or VP DAC. Once Oxy jumps on the next acronym bandwagon you know the bubble is about to burst.
@am I like all different kinds of cake except fruitcake. I find it disgusting.
When does AI say we will be sold?
The mission is to be proud of Piper Alpha and persecute anyone who is different.
Then act like there won’t be any consequence from those people later on.
How fu---d up is this to have a VP position in AI. At most it should be a director.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-bangert/