What they're trying to say: LLMs are better than people sometimes
What they are actually saying: MBAs are just as pointless as you thought they were
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2023
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Okay, but how does ChatGPT compare when it comes to other essential MBA skills like snorting coke and sexually harassing junior analysts?
Someone tell me how to measure my innovation
It's a bean can with one of those peel off metal lids but it has two layers. The first layer reveals the second, a built in colander to strain your beans.
Ok, that's actually an amazing idea. I would love cans like that! And it also seems surprisingly practical. Why don't bean cans have a layer that peels away to reveal built-in colanders?!
Nah that's a lot of extra cost per unit and especially waste to have a built in colander tbh
you could have the colander on one side and the opening on the other so you can put it under the faucet
I literally just came up with this to justify clowning on the idea of measuring an idea lol
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MBA Students: regurgitate a series of well-established strategies for business operations, with minor permutations intended to exploit niche under-~~exploited~~served markets
Sucks. Lame. No innovation. Bad.
Chat-GPT: recycles buzzword MBA talk into weapons grade gibberish
Brilliant! Gorgeous! Revolutionary! Wonderful!
WHAT IF THING BUT ON THE BLOCKCHAIN 
So I trained a ChatGPT discord bot I have to be a stoner who comes up with ridiculous stoned business ideas and one of the ideas was a place where monkeys train kids to ride bikes:
Oh... yeah, dude! I totally got another one. Picture this! A service where we hire a team of monkeys to teach little kids how to ride bikes. Like, they'll be wearing little t-shirts that say "bike coaches" and they'll be so good at balancing on those bikes, the kids will be riding like pros in no time! And then, at the end of the lesson, we'll give the kids a banana and the monkeys will get one too! We'll call it "Monkey Bikes" or something like that, man. It's genius!
This is the “innovation” they speak of.
I used to think the idea that most reddit comments were chat bots to be ridiculous. I no longer believe so.
This is so cool, where did you get the data to train the model like a stoner lol
I'm using this cog on Red V3 Discord bot: https://github.com/zhaobenny/bz-cogs/tree/main/aiuser
It allows you to set a per server prompt (which decides its personality), so I have different personalities depending on which server it's in. One is a stoner, another is a super kawaii ai bot (a super ado-wabwe, squishy widdle bean with a bubbwy personality who woves spreading happiwickles and making heawts woom with joy! 🥺✨💖 giggles cutely) that posts with lots of emoji and uwu speak. A third is an angry English ruffian who talks with a thick cockney accent and randomly starts fights.
New bit idea: use ChatGPT to build word salad about revolutionary productivity solutions, get on Shark Tank, and show up with a one slide PowerPoint deck that just says
PAY PEOPLE FAIRLY
Then a guillotine is rolled out and the rest is history 😉
Innovative = An elevator pitch idea using the correct ratio of current corpo-trend buzzwords that would convince clueless VCs with more funds than brains to invest in.
a human would struggle to come up with “noise canceling headphones”
Am I missing something? These aren’t innovative ideas, they’re products and ideas that all already exist.
“Grocery Helper” is literally a hook on my 40 year old swiss army knife. I use it all the time.
And it’s all shit college students would want. I should read the article more fully, lol.
In fairness, the MBA ideas are all awful
Compact printer
Truly a revolutionising idea that no mere human coup come up with without the bazinga power of AI.
That would be funny if MBAs try to use AI to automate away workers, but they end up automating away themselves.
Now ask it to cite 2 real life studies and its authors
How is innovation measured? What are the units for innovation?
Getting ~20 people on mechanical Turk to rate a 70 word description of a product on a scale of very unlikely to buy to very likely to buy
The same way "utilitons" are measured by capital-R "Rationalists."
That is to say, they make shit up that fits what they want to believe.
They don't even realize what this actually means lol it's amazing.
I could come up with all sorts of innovative ideas. What if dogs could vote? Innovation. What about a toilet you have to put coins in to flush? Innovation. How about a vending machine with equal chances of giving you 0, 1, or 2 of the item you put in? Inno- actually, pretty sure that one exists.
Privatized toilets
Privatized toilets already exist, but my version is better because anyone can use them even if they don't have money - it only charges you to flush. This could also cut costs on water, making it environmently friendly too 
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dog sufferage! dog sufferage! rufferage!
When "innovation" is quantified into a crude commodity that's supposed to come off an assembly line, of course you're going to have computer touchers going 
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"Good Ideas" are worthless. Good implementation, now there's something that would actually be impressive...
"ideas guy" is not a real thing, if you come up with an idea it's totally worthless unless you're able to implement it.
But because that's all capitalists are able to do because they don't work, they see being an idea guy as innovative as opposed to the actual collective labor power they control being innovative.
They don't realize how much creative work happens in the process of implementation either, because like you said they don't work.
So Mr. Idea Guy has the idea for X, and now the rest of the team does all the actual intellectual labor involved in making it real.
Like Facebook. Starts out with "there should be a website that you can rate girls on" and in the process of implementation, ~~the REST architecture is born~~ GraphQL and React we're born.
Idea: Total garbage
Implementation: One of the more important things in modern web architecture (depending on how you structure your project, we used React for a while until Lemmy switched).
Who even thinks that money is made by creating products anymore? That ship has sailed years ago. Nowadays, you make money by being a middleman, you simply create nothing and instead make "Uber but for X", undercutting the prices and cannibalizing whatever industry you're trying to "disrupt" and then you offer worse services for the same price, allowing you to skim money off of every transaction while giving your "independent contractors" basically nothing.
That, or just selling vibes like Andrew Tate. Anything but actual products, especially completely redundant nonsense like what these clowns are coming up with. There is only so much shit people actually need, and that mark was passed probably 50 years ago or longer.
There was some ghoul on twitter recently saying what they'd do if they had no money, and that was grift a $10,000 credit card and use it to set themselves up as a middleman for tree clearing work, using cheap undocumented immigrant labour and undercutting the competition so he could raise prices and expand the franchise.
At no point did the scam (which had multiple fatal flaws but assuming it works here) involve the "business owner" doing any actual work except illegally littering the street with signs advertising their supposed business which was actually just a middleman money pump exploiting cheap labour on both ends.
Usually I'm used to a fig leaf of obfuscation in these schemes, but no, full mask off "I'm exploiting labour for profit and that's good actually"
innovative as like what, installing a touch-screen on an egg cooker? making an app for your electric can opener?
Classically known empirically measurable phenomena: the goodness of ideas
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