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They had me at the headline: AI isn’t replacing jobs. AI spending is

"From Amazon to General Motors to Booz Allen Hamilton, layoffs are being announced and blamed on AI. Amazon said it would cut 14,000 corporate jobs. United Parcel Service (UPS) said it had reduced its management workforce by about 14,000 positions over the past 22 months. And Target said it would cut 1,800 corporate roles. Some academic economists have also chimed in: The St. Louis Federal Reserve found a (weak) correlation between theoretical AI exposure and actual AI adoption in 12 occupational categories."

"Yet we remain skeptical of the claim that AI is responsible for these layoffs. A recent MIT Media Lab study found that 95% of generative AI pilot business projects were failing. Another survey by Atlassian concluded that 96% of businesses “have not seen dramatic improvements in organizational efficiency, innovation, or work quality.” Still another study found that 40% of the business people surveyed have received “AI slop” at work in the last month and that it takes nearly two hours, on average, to fix each instance of slop. In addition, they “no longer trust their AI-enabled peers, find them less creative, and find them less intelligent or capable.”

https://www.fastcompany.com/91435192/chatgpt-llm-openai-jobs-amazon

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U-P-G-R-A-Y-E-D-D 2mo ago

This is what I'm seeing in the wild.

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🅱🅻🆄🅴🅱️ 2mo ago

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I don't agree with the layoff's as, if your people are being improved by a system, then that makes it more valuable to keep those people as they are more powerful. Not less valuable.

However, I also disagree with the other end of it as well. I remember what it was like to write SQL completely manually every time. I remember what it was like to write JavaScript completely manually every time. It sucked. I pretty much don't even need to write SQL anymore, I can just say, I want this data in this format and I get it. I can dump a slow query in and get a fast query out.

I do see a lot of people who try to use LLM's for things they can't do or in ways that don't produce results, but for me? I work like 10 times faster because of it.

nobody 2mo ago

I had to argue with someone to tell them these facts the other day

I suspect a lot of it is retarded middle managers but also the tech is simply not reliable and they’re trying too hard to pull value from the future to nlw

FikaTimeBooks.com 2mo ago

I don't think companies know what to use AI for. And shoehorning it into companies is a bad idea. This reminds me of when Amazon was intent on using drones to deliver packages, until they realized it wasn't feasible and seemingly dropped the idea. I think it will take a long time until companies can effectively use AI on tasks.