Our team has been working on implementing AI across functions in our company. And I was told me that the CEO wants to eliminate jobs and hence these AI implementations need to succeed.
PS: So far they're not succeeding.
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There was someone who said something like "The purpose of AI is to allow the wealthy to access the benefits of the skilled, without allowing the skilled to access the benefits of wealth".
All of history really is just the wealthy consistently waging class warfare on everyone else, with the latter occasionally fighting back.
Except that without building that expertise all the experts will die with no one to replace them.
There was an episode of Star Trek TNG where that had happened and the aliens’ society broke down when their computers went haywire because nobody could fix them.
And Stargate.
the episode with that device that wipes out an enemy force by sacrificing a human life with an energy wave, they dint know to fix that tech because regressed it over centuries. and the other one where sg1 encountered a ppl living under a shield-dome that was losing power-integrity, they dint know how to fix it, same thing they purposely regressed it.
i’d say the shield dome was less they didn’t know how to fix it: they knew perfectly well how to fix it and actively maintained the system, but the system rewrote their memory so they didn’t know anything was wrong
There might have been some important information in the thread above me but I can't be bothered to read and comprehend it so I put it into my AI and it said I should vote for Musk and jello was purple.
there was one in lower decks and futurama. they had AI that controlled the society, when it started malfunctioning they need an advanced race to fix it.
Business execs...the most useless group who extract the greatest amount of income for themselves. Those buggers all stick together and always end up on some board with a paid position after they retire. Like jackals, they travel in packs but they'll easily fuck you over if it means pleasing their overlords (the shareholders). /s
But still want you to be a consumer. In their mind, consumers and employees are totally separate groups.
But only consumers that are like parasitic bacteria that don't know how to do anything except consume. They don't want customers who are complete people who can make decisions.
In their mind, consumers and employees are totally separate groups.
Which simply, isn't true? That is where this generation of robber barons seems more short-sighted than the last one. Henry Ford was a prick, but he at least grasped that if his workers couldn't afford a car, that would negatively affect his company outlook.
Yeah, it happens a lot these days. Consumers, employees, and taxpayers are all somehow different groups. When it's said "taxpayers are paying for SNAP benefits", they're pretending people on SNAP don't pay taxes, or will never pay taxes.
Capitalists:
Facts. I had five requests for "AI workforce optimization strategies" last quarter. People paying big bucks to find out their bright vision of the future is fucking dead end over and over again is kinda fascinating. There are ways to implement AI to improve specific parts of the workflow. Busywork mostly but nevertheless - it can work. However, none of it works in tandem with saving money on having fewer people on the team. The only real tangible benefit of implementing AI tools at this point is that your team members burn out a bit slower.
your team members burn out a bit slower.
i believe you mean you can push your team members harder
no. pushing harder is counterproductive under most circumstances. unless it is an emergency security situation - there is no good reason to crunch your team.
You and I know that. The PHB in your building's corner office does not.
aren't they gone extinct? Maybe it is a regional thing - down here in Ukraine we ran out of these guys by the time the invasion started.
i 100% agree, but making life easier for staff isn’t what corps tend to do: if things get easier, that just means now you can do more
well, that's corps for ya. that's why people work in startups and scam corps out of ridiculous sums of money for some bullshit solutions wrapped around in shiny presentations. in most cases the only place where everybody go out of their way to "get things done" is on paper.
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It's really wild to see a mass delusion at such scale like this. I do hope it all comes crashing down soon, before they can do even more damage...
There's only one problem though, AI can't do our jobs.
We all know this. They do not. They probably look at the code generated, and the running product, and say look, it did your job. They ignored the vulnerability findings. They ignored the infrastructure settings, and the routine maintenance that will require updates and changes.
They ignored design patterns, and architecture, and the things that make it easy to support in the future.
"Move fast and break things" works until it breaks your entire business model.
AI at its best is really just a mirror. It can only help you automate what you already know how to do. To get the most out of it right now, you need skilled engineers. But let's be honest, those people are so talented they probably could've worked wonders even with 17th-century AI, sooo.
I really just want to fast-forward to where the AI bubble pops at this point. They've got me horny to see it burn down and keep delaying my payoff.
As much as I have moral qualms regarding IP theft, snowballing unsecured debt, VC tulipmania, useless rotting empty data centers -- I hope for all our sake's we can manage a somewhat soft landing. But the longer the mania goes on, the less likely that's going to be, maybe.
Nvidia just tipped past 5 trillion valuation. There's no soft landings from this high up.
I think we are far beyond the point where a soft landing is possible. It will be a hard landing, and all we can do is to prepare for the impact.
I am not worried about the prospect of the economy no longer requiring human labor.
I am worried about people in power and what they will do once they no longer have to rely on everyone else to do their bidding.
Same thing as before, except now with robots! The wealthy don't want us poors to live. Soon as they can unlock eternal life and peopleless labor, we all die. Ever question why our healthcare is always reactionary while theirs is all preventative?
When society stops working where are those motherfuckers going to spend their bonuses?
See Asimov's Solaria.
They're gonna try to fire you anyway, as it's the only way to hit the profit target.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734633/
They want this not realizing they are one of the weakest links in any organization.
Of course, and we really really want to replace bosses with AI. Why aren't you doing that?
If you have a shit boss, resign, found a company doing whatever your shit boss's company was doing but do it for 10% the price because you use AI for the administrative crap.
My shitty company provides wireless service for 146 million customers. Banks have so far refused to lend me the few billion I'd need to open up my own shop.
You could try 1 million customers.
its a form of constructive dismissal, thier pressure tactics dint work fast enough or large enough, so they have to use AI to arbitrarily do this.
AI workforce replacement is absolutely necessary if we are ever to achieve the mission of the Georgia Guidestones