Posted on 07/04/2023 6:22:35 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Many have raised alarms about the potential for artificial intelligence to displace jobs in the years ahead, but it’s already causing upheaval in one industry where workers once seemed invincible: tech.
A small but growing number of tech firms have cited AI as a reason for laying off workers and rethinking new hires in recent months, as Silicon Valley races to adapt to rapid advances in the technology being developed in its own backyard.
Chegg, an education technology company, disclosed in a regulatory filing last month that it was cutting 4% of its workforce, or about 80 employees, “to better position the Company to execute against its AI strategy and to create long-term, sustainable value for its students and investors.”
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said in an interview with Bloomberg in May that the company expects to pause hiring for roles it thinks could be replaced with AI in the coming years. (In a subsequent interview with Barrons, however, Krishna said that he felt his earlier comments were taken out of context and stressed that “AI is going to create more jobs than it takes away.”)
And in late April, file-storage service Dropbox said that it was cutting about 16% of its workforce, or about 500 people, also citing AI.
In its most-recent layoffs report, outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas said 3,900 people were laid off in May due to AI, marking its first time breaking out job cuts based on that factor. All of those cuts occurred in the tech sector, according to the firm.
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Let’s be clear. It enhances the work of the last human that works. Everybody else gets nothing from the deal.
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I see it, doesn’t necessarily replace humans
Agree it lets the thinking class of people to maintain their jobs.
Over time, the number of thinking people will be less and less. Then it's "Hello, Idiocracy!"
It can tighten up code. Been using GTP-4 for that.
Does he actually have a plan?
Statement 1: We are pausing hiring due to AI.
Statement 2: AI will create more jobs.
You ain’t seen nuttin yet. Just wait till the present AI Software starts writing it’s own AI Software.
2001 Space Odyssey
Remember the ling when Hal asked WHAT ARE YOU DOING DAVE.
If AI is that so good it can design a system to eliminate itself.
Welcome to Costco. I love you.
That’s another reason they want to strike down the Second. If pulling the plug doesn’t work, a well aimed shot would do the trick.
Never AI more credit then it can prove remember the panic of the Y2K issue.
Every machine has flaws and limits even the best computers crash they were designed by humans.
LOL!
Yep. If AI is so ‘smart,’ why didn’t it see this coming? ;)
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