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 vga   ( @vga@sopuli.xyz )  to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

AI layoffs

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AI layoffs

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 vga   ( @vga@sopuli.xyz )  to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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  •  lad   ( @sukhmel@programming.dev ) 
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    CEO: why not both?

    •  R00bot   ( @R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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      Shareholders: why not all three?

      •  hydroptic   ( @hydroptic@sopuli.xyz ) 
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        Considering that C-suite executives are usually fantastically expensive, they’d be a logical position to automate (assuming AI worked like suits think it does). For some veeeery strange reason no board of directors has suggested replacing themselves with AIs

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          •  hydroptic   ( @hydroptic@sopuli.xyz ) 
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            It’s almost like the rules don’t apply to the moneyed class

        •  NigelFrobisher   ( @NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ) 
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          It’d be super easy to replace Sam Altman with a bot that spits out keywords known to increase OpenAI shares.

          Waitaminute… Sam alt-man?

      •  Tolookah   ( @Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de ) 
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        Hedge fund manager: hold my beer.

        •  vga   ( @vga@sopuli.xyz ) OP
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          Humanity: yes, let’s replace all of the above. 100% unemployment rate is the only way to go.

          •  hazeebabee   ( @hazeebabee@slrpnk.net ) 
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            Honestly 100% unemployed becuase we have a good universal income system or something would be great. But sadly it looks like we’re in a different timeline :(

        •  lad   ( @sukhmel@programming.dev ) 
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          *Several steps later*

          Narrator: And that, folks, is how we got the Utopia we live in, by replacing all the work with AI, and letting people enjoy their lives

          •  r00ty   ( @r00ty@kbin.life ) 
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            Haha. No. Nothing so hopeful. The rich people will get even richer and everyone that used to be working class and middle class die a slow death.

    •  quicken   ( @quicken@aussie.zone ) 
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      CEO is the first role to go!

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    If we fire all developers and allow AIs to program themselves, the AIs are going to commit virtual seppuku after a few days.

    •  tastysnacks   ( @tastysnacks@programming.dev ) 
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      Can we build an AI manager that just keeps asking for different shades of red?

    •  MajorHavoc   ( @MajorHavoc@programming.dev ) 
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      AIs are going to commit virtual seppuku after a few days.

      Yes. And that’s our best case scenario. Worst case is a wildly incompetent, but still effective form of SkyNet.

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    It’s the marketing department that should really be worried.

    •  DragonTypeWyvern   ( @DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ) 
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      Removed by mod

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    Could probably replace managers with AI, but being trained on most managers would mean it would be equally bad at its job.

    I think the most likely is for the artists jobs to go away as art doesn’t have to be exact, but code does.

  •  ඞmir   ( @Amir@lemmy.ml ) 
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    Only one of them gets to make the decision to fire the other

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    Managers might not like people but they don’t want to get rid of them. There’s no cheap thrill from micromanaging an AI.

    •  nova_ad_vitum   ( @nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca ) 
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      Plus it’s harder to pass the buck and blame an AI for your screw ups. It would be perceived, as the kids say, as a skills issue.

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