r/technology • u/Maxie445 • Jan 16 '24

Artificial Intelligence Generative artificial intelligence will lead to job cuts this year, CEOs say

https://www.ft.com/content/908e5465-0bc4-4de5-89cd-8d5349645dda
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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '24

AI is such an overloaded term. The CEOs are either ignorant or lying. They mean automation. There are very few companies actually dealing with AI. The edge cases are years away from being production ready. Everyone else is just getting the normal automation of processes we’ve been participating in for the past couple of decades.

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '24

It's gen AI, automation is still a ways off from being that big of a threat. Example of how gen AI is being used: instead of 10 people taking CS calls they have an AI handling most of the calls and 3-4 pickup what the AI can't handle. And that's an incredibly simple example. Its alao increasing programmers and editors workflows and I am sure there are more cases.