Guess there is always starvation...can’t work so no eats.
“Salesforce...replaced 4,000 customer support workers with AI agents.”
I HATE any sort of automated phone “agent.” It usually takes me 4 or 5 minutes to get past the thoroughly useless bot to a (sometimes) helpful human. What a ridiculous time suck.
I have NEVER gotten anything remotely useful from a phone AI agent / bot.
AI is taking a toll on jobs not by replacing workers with itself, but by diverting resources to a company named nVidia.
All of this screams to me, “Work for yourself!”
wanna keep your business going?
Have a human answering the phone instead of a computer.
I threw contracts to providers simply because a human answered the phone. All it takes is one trip through “automated phone hell” to make up the price difference for parts.
In the old days of touchtone phones, I would just press 0 to find a human.
An online AI chat is very common these days. Instead of 0, I type in HUMAN. Sometimes it takes typing human 2 or 3 times.
I have also run into AI while using the telephone customer service. No matter what the "choices" from the AI are, I just repeat HUMAN until they transfer to a living, breathing person.
PS - I wonder if some young entrepreneur will develop an AI customer service with a thick East Indian accent.
I recently read that 1/3rd of hollywood jobs have disappeared. 48,000 gone. Most I suspect due to the terrible scold movies and tv shows they make but AI is replacing background players and set design builders etc.
The writing from AI is a rehash of the bad storylines already made.
AI = affordable Indians & outsourcing
The MAJORITY of layoffs are still due to the same issue: BAD MANAGEMENT.
Amazon, FEDEX and UPS all overstaffed during the lockdowns. The Auto companies and Power Companies made terrible Billion-dollar bets on Green Technology that is worthless.
Fear is effortless. You just surrender to it. Courage takes faith—faith in God, faith in reason, faith in the idea that progress and truth exist beyond our own anxieties.
Fear shrinks the world. Faith and critical thought expand it.
“What To Know”. Et tu, Epoch Times? Et tu?
They're blaming the "AI" boogeyman but it's the automation and lower cost Indian programmers supporting that automation.