Shouldn't that be a net negative because of loss of knowledge and talent during ai-inspired layoffs?
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Yeah. Then big corp could buy small corp.
Everydown turn there are layoffs and loss of talent. They alweys find something 'unique' to blame it on. Then things recover and they hire people who learn it again.
until 10 years have passed I refuse to call ai job loss anything other than the latest iteration of that pattern. Time will tell.
Well like much analysis of economic impact, that's hard to quantify, so we can just assume it's trivial.
nah that's a separate department and they deliberately keep that book as far away from the overall study as possible.
Yet again those at the top waste untold sums of money and resources on the new shiny and everyone else is left to deal with the mess they created. While they float away on their golden parachute.
Good to know they are worth the 300x average compensation of a normal worker, this is yet another piece of evidence we should aim for 600x instead of guillotines.
Save money and skip AI
If a gif could represent an entire article...
Don't give up. Keep it growing!
But they will keep pumping money into it, laying off workers over it, and alienating consumers with it all the same. The global economy is an AI-based Ponzi scheme.
lol get rekt
What even is Enterprise Wide Deployment?
It's when you make AI available to every employee at your company, instead of on an individual or team basis.
That's sort of a weird concept to me because in the businesses I have seen most people don't want to use AI, and the ones that do are on teams that have access. Just seems like pushing a tool to people who don't want to learn how to use it.
As if we weren't going to figure out how shitty LLM's are organically.
Good. Fuck 'em.
You mean they couldn't just stop paying their workers?
I thought AI was supposed to replace all that FTE overhead that gets in the way of shareholder profits!!!!!111111oneoneoneoenone
Business morons who don't understand tech is what this bubble is all about. I can't believe so many businesses have sunk hundreds of billions of dollars into technology that fundamentally cannot do what they fantasize it to do.
This is just like them trying to solve traffic problems
Just one more AI bro! Just one more integration and it'll finally be good.
I just got a work complaint from an angry client about my rep’s performance. Well over 50 emails over 4 weeks, it was a lot to review. I had ChatGPT give me a summary of the client complaint and it highlighted just where my side started to fall apart. I hate the slop, but this time it helped
Its not like there are zero uses for AI, its that the use cases they're trying to shove down our throats are the worst ones.
I'm a certified AI hater, but I still use it on occasion to help with spreadsheet formulas.
Its nice with chat bots like chat gpt but companies who bet on their own Ai... Or who believe they will be the next billion dollar Ai startup.... I dont believe in any of that.
I think we pretty much have seen what is going to come from Ai. Chat bots. People will pay for those, specially programmers. But also other people. Outside of that.... I cant see much value to pay for. Nothing in fact.