What an utter dick.
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- captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
Honestly, I do respect the decision to publicly declare that the laid off employees were very good. I’ve done job searching while laid off and it does suck the suspicion through which you’re viewed by interviewers when they ask about it
- TwilitSky@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
The EGO on this man “because I hired all of these people, they’re amazing. Pay no attention to the fact that I had to lay 1k of them off due to poor planning.”
- Binturong@lemmy.caEnglish2 hours
Do the shareholders know? I mean actually though, are they watching? How do these CEOs not get removed for annihilating company futures based on speculative bubbles? Microslop is having the exact same issue with their guy… Can they just not see it somehow? How are they being bamboozled?
- criss_cross@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
Yes because everyone who got laid off is seeing once in a lifetime opportunities and not a lot of automated rejections based off of crappy LLM setups.
- THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
Remember back when this AI Slop jock jagoff was making great games? Feels like an eternity ago.
3 hoursUnreal and Unreal Tournament, sure. I feel like all of their many sequels saw a continuous decline in quality, but the originals were great games. Can’t deny that Gears of War has been influential. Epic Pinball and One Must Fall 2097 were good for a laugh for ten minutes, but I can’t help but feel that they’ll have aged badly.
Seems crazy to think that Jill of the Jungle, which is an awful game, is what lined their pockets enough to develop the Unreal engine, and they were riding on the success of that all the way up to Fortnite.
- TwilitSky@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
The basics are still there: Food, Shelter, Water, Safety Fill one of those needs and forget about the fancy AI silliness.
- HarneyToker@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
Yes, before AI Fortnite was fulfilling one of those 4 basic needs, you’re right.
- _stranger_@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
The person you’re replying to is trying to say you’ll be safer if you work for a company providing basic needs instead of something non-required, like gaming.
- BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish7 hours
Good, they’ll have to sell off all their shit, and we can get lots of fancy stuff really cheap at their yard sales.
Those rich douchebags are always buying expensive guitars they never learn to play, that’s what I’m targeting.
- BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish7 hours
No, employers will REJECT all those great resumes, because they’re firing their best people, too.
All this uncontrolled giddiness about AI is entirely, 100% because they are so excited about the opportunity to FIRE as many disgusting human workers as possible. They have already declared the human workforce dead, and they are replacing us ASAP, often before our computerized replacements are even ready.
Remember all those racists chanting about being replaced? It isn’t the Jews, or the immigrants, or whatever was in their pea brains, it’s the AI/Robotics that absolutely WILL replace us.
- Horsey@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
They’re trying to realign tech and software developers from the cool, relaxed, high paid jobs of a decade ago to more “modern” (read: exploited) standards of work.
- _stranger_@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
They’re ecstatic that they finally have leverage over thought workers.
- 7101334@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
I agree with the first two paragraphs, but as for the third, I think you overestimate the capability of chatbots on steroids. I’d even go so far as to say that promoting the whole “imminent replacement for humanity” narrative is doing their marketing for them. It couldn’t even run a Taco Bell drivethrough.
- BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish4 hours
I get what you are saying, but the distinguishing characteristic of the new AI, over the past computer programs, is that it learns, and improves. Years ago, people used to laugh at me for supporting solar, because it was so inefficient. I just said the research will improve it, and today solar is an extremely popular, affordable, and growing option, especially with Trump’s war profiteering.
Apparently in the AI world, they are expecting it’s capabilities to double every 7 months. I saw a list of steps, with the industries that will be impacted with each step, and as each step doubles, it impacts bigger and bigger industries.
It’s learning the basics right now, but humans are training the AI to the point that it will replace them, then the next level of humans will train the next level until replaces them, then move on to the next level to be trained.
In a few years, well all be replaced, except a lucky few who do the maintenance, but those jobs won’t pay much, because if you won’t do it for that pay scale, get out of the way, there are a LOT of unemployed people who will accept it.
- 3 hours
If you’re thinking of the list that I’m thinking of: that is completely unfounded. They started with the premise “AI will be perfect in 2 years” and then drew a graph that looked good-ish. There is no scientific value to it.
- BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish2 hours
Valid, but no matter what the timeline, it’s going to improve over time, and companies are already committed to it, so they’ll be prioritizing continuing R&D until it does what they want it to.
It’s coming whether we like it or not, and it’s going to be a bloodbath no matter what the final scenario is. Either the workers take the hit, or the companies do, and if the companies do, then the workers will take the hit anyway.
The workers are screwed no matter what.
- 1 hour
t’s coming whether we like it or not.
Counterpoint: LLMs are a dead-end for AGI. And outsourcing tasks to a “sometimes correct, but very often wrong” bot starts looking like a not-so-good idea once you actually need to pay for the compute.
- BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish12 minutes
Valid, but that’s part of what I mean. If it finally works the way they want it to, welcome to a 75+% permanent unemployment rate, and the worker is screwed. But if it doesn’t work, the bubble pops, and the entire economy crashes, and the workers is screwed.
We’re screwed.
- 7101334@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
It learns, sure… and it’s already learned as much as it can from the entire internet, and still can’t run a Taco Bell drivethrough.
Apparently in the AI world, they are expecting it’s capabilities to double every 7 months. I saw a list of steps
Yeah, and in the cryptocurrency world, they predicted that Bitcoin would currently be worth $200k - $300k, potentially as high as 400k - 1mil in high-greed environments.
Instead, it is almost exactly at the value of their “Bitcoin Dead” level lol
I would give less credence to the opinions of people whose financial interests are vested in you believing AI is magic.
It’s learning the basics right now, but humans are training the AI to the point that it will replace them, then the next level of humans will train the next level until replaces them
Humans are more than just chatbots. Therefore even the most advanced chatbot will never replace us.
Which is not to say that I think humans are the supreme possible intelligence, or that machine intelligence could never surpass us. I just do not believe that the current LLM’s we have are capable of achieving anything resembling actual thought, just a decently convincing mimicry of it.
It’s also not to say that I think no jobs will be lost, but I think they’ll be situations like where a QA department reduces its workforce by 75% but then the remaining 25% are still expected to oversee the AI’s output. It’s still a shit outcome economically (though I’d also reference that quote, “Imagine how badly we had to fuck up to create a world where the robots taking all the jobs is a bad thing”), but it’s not the same as actually rivaling us in cognition or intellectual capacity.
In a few years, well all be replaced, except a lucky few who do the maintenance
And a few years before 2016, everyone who bought Bitcoin was going to be driving a Lamborghini.
I still see more Priuses and Corollas on the road these days.
- funkless_eck@sh.itjust.worksEnglish9 hours
my company of 50 went down to 22 because of “AI productivity gainz” - then we had the biggest dip in client retention in its 10 year history and those clients that do remain all have massive issues with getting what they want and there are constant “fire drills” to keep them happy.
- mrfriki@lemmy.worldEnglish8 hours
We just started using it a couple of weeks ago, I’m expecting this very same scenario.
- jefferyjefferson@lemmy.orgEnglish7 hours
It’s simultaneously testing the waters and conditioning people to accept less.
Did management have anything to say? How was the dip in client retention measured?
- funkless_eck@sh.itjust.worksEnglish8 hours
EOY state of the Union report, 10Q reporting or whatever the eoy one is called.
Retention is the classic churn metric (lost/total)*100
If they’re so talented and experienced, then why’d you fire them for no reason? Surely the company expects to continue growing and will need more employees, not fewer.
- FluorideMind@lemmy.worldEnglish7 hours
I do have to give him a mole of credit for at least advocateing their quality. But tbh they should just have together into their own studio.
- melsaskca@lemmy.caEnglish8 hours
I call bullshit. He’s under the illusion that computer science and development requires geniuses like they did in the 1950’s. Most are just working stiffs being bandied about by bad leadership who eventually throws them away after a series of bad management decisions.
- ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldEnglish7 hours
Being a genius only takes you so far. A lot of projects need manpower for testing and debugging, and waiting for some genius with 23549 AI agents won’t solve it.
- Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish9 hours
Seriously I got the best top ppl and letting them go is not the message you want to have.
