This should make everyone even more suspicious of the management consultancies claiming to employ the smartest people in the world.
who thinks they're the smartest? how long have you been in the working world?
they're there to present a veneer of credibility to allow executives to make risky moves or justify ugly choices.
you're a executive in a F500 looking at blowing $200M of shareholder cash on something -- do your due diligence and get someone "smart" to tell you what's what.
They cannot perceive the difference.
Second level is that their target market is top management that are also incapable of anything except "the immediate surface appearance".
"It was not my fault, we were just following Deloitte advice!"
It always has been a waste of money
The word “slop” is tossed around way too much, but these sorts of engagements are a perfect example of replacing low value human slop with computer generated slop.
Probably a net positive to society because a few interns at a consulting company got to spend a Friday night enjoying themselves vs. working on a BS report.
Yes, I might be slightly jaded. But I’m not certain I feel this is hyperbole either.
Once the humans are removed, there is far less motivated reasoning to keep that process alive if it’s just robots burning tokens passing paper back and forth.
I will likely somehow be proven wrong, but it is one of the main uses I am optimistic for in the AI space.
We're headed for even rougher times if LLMs are going to be taken "at their word".
[0] Now, watching her testimony, it seems she was willfully complicit and it's a disgrace that she isn't in prison, but that's tangential. The "system" was responsible, but without personal accountability, nothing will change. So it goes.