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Suumit Shah, a 31-year-old CEO of an e-commerce platform called Dukaan based in India, is getting torn to shreds online for firing 90 percent of the company's customer support staff after arguing that an AI chatbot had outperformed them. It was an unusually callous announcement that clearly didn't sit well with plenty of netizens, as Insider reports. "We had to layoff [sic] 90 percent of our support team because of this AI chatbot," he tweeted. "Tough? Yes. Necessary? Absolutely." In a lengthy Twitter thread laden with screenshots from action movies such as "iRobot" and "Limitless," Shah argued that response times...

After getting frustrated out of the lemons his problems gave him, David Miller made his own corporate lemonade. Due to the frustration of always having to call technical support to solve his own frequent hardware problems, he started taking the initiative to educate himself.

I've got a problem with my home computer and I was wondering if someone could help me? My system is: AMD Anthlon Processor 1.24GHz, 384MB of RAM Windows XP Prof with SP2 Cox Cable (ISP) Everything was working fine until about a week ago. And it only happens when I start a browser (Internet Explorer and Firefox), but my system will hang and lock up while web pages load and it takes forever for them to load up, worse than if I had dial up. My curser will also disappear for a while and if I try to toggle between...

Here is my problem:Yesterday AM, my box at home (a P3 running WinMe) was running really slow. It is on a cable modem through Insight. I rebooted a couple of times, and unplugged the modem several times just to be able to open a browser. I figured it was just with them, and didn't bother with a trouble call.After I got home from work, it was worse, so I called tech support. Only then did I look at my Zone Alarm, which showed an alarming number of hits (the tech guy was no help). I have been good about running...