The real takeaway here is that Wells Fargo pays for work that isn't quantifiable via review of the work product. What are these people doing that produces nothing that can be reviewed to quantify their performance to such a degree that simple mouse movement is the only metric they can be judged by? If I were stupid enough to be invested in that criminal enterprise I'd be pissed.
The article doesn't say the fired employees were doing this all the time. They could have used them for an hour here and there while they were out running an errand. Very difficult to spot that on any work review.
If they had measurable productivity that was acceptable then who cares if they needed to step away for a while? Wells Fargo is sending a message that they care more about warm seats than actual results.
Oh yeah I agree 100%, this whole thing is ridiculous and shows wells Fargo don't trust their employees and have to resort to this kind of bullshit.
I'm just saying it's possible that these employees were fired merely for using this mouse moving software, not because they weren't getting much work done.
This tells me that Wells Fargo has middle management layers so useless, they can’t even understand if their employees are doing their jobs so they resort to monitoring.
They literally just want their employees to look busy because their corporate culture isn’t able to comprehend managers having close relationships with their direct reports and their work.
Companies should be looking at an employee’s output to determine if they’re worth keeping employed. If you can’t measure that, what the fuck are you doing? How do you justify having any employees when you don’t know what they contribute to the bottom line?
And probably a lot was invested in catching these scallywags. Just imagine having to setup this kind of monitoring. Or did the employees have mouse mover.exe on their pc.
Probably they recorded the screen and used that as monitoring.
Sony Pictures Entertainment has acquired the popular movie theater chain Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, the two companies announced on Wednesday.
Alamo’s Fantastic Fest film festival will still be operated by the company.
Sony’s acquisition is particularly notable given that it’s happening after the 2020 termination of the Paramount Consent Decrees.
The decrees, resulting from a 1948 Supreme Court decision, forced movie companies to sell the theaters they owned to spur competition and create consumer choice.
With so many ways for viewers to see films nowadays, the decree was reversed by the Department of Justice.
Since then, Sony isn’t the only movie distributor that has purchased theaters; Netflix has cinemas in New York and Los Angeles.
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I wonder to what sort of standard. I know I was shocked how poor things were when I started grading college students work as a TA. Same later in the work world reviewing nominations for an award.
Texas sabotaging public education again? Color me shocked. No doubt the lower test scores will be used to justify privatizing more schools.
Also 3000 exam responses is luaghably low to train an LLM. These tests are for every 3rd-8th grader. That's less responses than you'd get from a single mid sized school - expected to train an LLM how to grade probably millions of answers across the entire state.
They claim its not an LLM because it doesn't learn as it goes. I'm fairly certain that's been the common implementation since we learned from the older generation of chatbots all turning to Nazis after being trolled by 4chan.
Ugh... I'm deep on the ai sphere, and this seems like a bad idea to me. Gpt (let's face it, they are probably using open ai) can be deeply biased and arbitrary in it's evaluations.
For example, "Two apples and four oranges," might score better than: "4 oranges and 2 apples." for inscrutable reasons. Say, if the question spelled out the numbers, and the LLM has a weighted bias to favor overall textual consistently, it might produces a reason to dock points apparently unrelated to that weight, such as: "incomplete sentence." for the second answer, but not the first.
Students may also receive lower scores due to cultural biases towards certain phrases, and factors as straightforward as their name.
Finally, AI will hallucinate errors constantly if you ask it to evaluate text without any errors. Constantly. Consistently.
An essay by behave like an AI that grades all exams only with grades A-C. Grade my essay with a B and argue what I did well and what I could have done better.
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Students in Texas taking their state-mandated exams this week are being used as guinea pigs for a new artificial intelligence-powered scoring system set to replace a majority of human graders in the region.
The STAAR exams, which test students between the third and eighth grades on their understanding of the core curriculum, were redesigned last year to include fewer multiple-choice questions.
According to a slideshow hosted on TEA’s website, the new scoring system was trained using 3,000 exam responses that had already received two rounds of human grading.
Some safety nets have also been implemented — a quarter of all the computer-graded results will be rescored by humans, for example, as will answers that confuse the AI system (including the use of slang or non-English responses).
While TEA is optimistic that AI will enable it to save buckets of cash, some educators aren’t so keen to see it implemented.
The attempt to draw a line between them isn’t surprising — there’s no shortage of teachers despairing online about how generative AI services are being used to cheat on assignments and homework.
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