IBM to pause hiring for 7800 jobs that could be done by AI
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-01/ibm-to-pause-hiring-for-back-office-jobs-that-ai-could-kill "IBM CEO Arvind Krishna told Bloomberg that it expects to pause hiring for roles as roughly 7,800 jobs could be replaced by AI in the coming years. Reuters reports: Hiring specifically in back-office functions such as human resources will be suspended or slowed, Krishna said, adding that 30% of non-customer-facing roles could be replaced by AI and automations in five years. The reduction could include not replacing roles vacated by attrition, the PC-maker told the publication." https://www.reuters.com/technology/ibm-pause-hiring-plans-replace-7800-jobs-with-ai-bloomberg-news-2023-05-01/
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You would need to set up so much infrastrucure for AI to even do its relevant "jobs". Having chatbots interact with people is not the same as building out entire infrastructure to replace non-customer facing roles. Having senior management plan out who makes decisions, who approves decisions, what access does AI have to data, how does AI leverage that data, having AI traverse ambiguity without data, ensuring cleanliness of data, and so much more that would need to be built and tested before they are replacing jobs. This is just clickbait and we aren't there yet and IBM definitely wont be there in 5 years. We have barely even begun replacing Cashiers or simpler task jobs and we've had the tech for all of that for ages.
In a related story, Princeton’s physics department shutting down cuz calculators.
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Let's start with IBM CEO Krishna getting kicked to the curb by ChatGPT or Barf... Or Johnny 5
Is Johnny 5 still alive?
Rest companies to follow