Dell’s CES 2026 chat was the most pleasingly un-AI briefing I’ve had in maybe 5 years

  • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    I put in the effort of giving feedback whenever able. Like Outlook asks “whould you Recommend outlook to friends and colleagues?” So then I put no and talk about the AI garbage they keep adding as a deterrent to advocating for outlook"

    The software we sell has AI added (not AI really.) But it “watches” your geometry selections in CAD assemblies and and suggests other geometries you most likely wanted to select next. If those are correct you accept them, otherwise ignore them and move on with your task.

    For example say an engineer is working on a front grille of a car and selects a radius on one grille opening, it predicts you probably want to perform the task to every grille opening. So it might save the engineer 2 minutes of manual selections, but over an 8 hour day that 2 minutes is probably negligible anyway because most of an engineers wasted time is not in non optimized CAD selection it dealing with paperwork and changing customer requests, or badly relayed information disambiguation.

    So even though it’s “cool” it wasted development in my opinion. They’d have been better off using the resources to create or improve communication / collaboration tools in PLM systems.