1st person I know who is losing his job due to AI

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a software engineer for a very big tech company, think of Cisco, Oracle, Palo Alto, and the my division just let go all junior SE, about 25 on staff, because AI can do a much better job. I think I will be out of a job very soon due to AI in about a year or so. The speed of improvement in AI is so scary.

Cisco has 10000 software devs. "All junior SE" at a company like that is 25 people?


https://futurism.com/the-byte/klarna-ceo-bragged-replacing-workers-ai-losses


"Swedish buy-now-pay-later company Klarna, whose CEO once bragged about its automated customer service AI bots doing the work of "700 full-time agents," is now in deep trouble.

The fintech outfit is facing net losses of $99 million for the first quarter of this year, CNBC reports, which is more than double compared to the same period last year.

The company had already paused its highly anticipated IPO in the US last month, which once valued it at over $15 billion."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a software engineer for a very big tech company, think of Cisco, Oracle, Palo Alto, and the my division just let go all junior SE, about 25 on staff, because AI can do a much better job. I think I will be out of a job very soon due to AI in about a year or so. The speed of improvement in AI is so scary.

Cisco has 10000 software devs. "All junior SE" at a company like that is 25 people?


https://futurism.com/the-byte/klarna-ceo-bragged-replacing-workers-ai-losses


"Swedish buy-now-pay-later company Klarna, whose CEO once bragged about its automated customer service AI bots doing the work of "700 full-time agents," is now in deep trouble.

The fintech outfit is facing net losses of $99 million for the first quarter of this year, CNBC reports, which is more than double compared to the same period last year.

The company had already paused its highly anticipated IPO in the US last month, which once valued it at over $15 billion."

NP. What a dumb article, likely written by AI. Does not make any actual connection between the AI bots and the losses. Just two disparate facts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lobbyists. We will always need lobbyists and you can’t automate my job or accomplish it with AI. We are like roaches. When the nuclear bomb goes off in the job market it will be us and a bunch of AI robots with jobs.

Lobbyists can go straight to hell.

[Anonymous]

AI cannot make decisions. It can regurgitate what you train it on faster than a human.

For now, we are not in the matrix- but if you have a job that actually requires decision making you are fine.

Or, in matrix terminology- choice.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We laid off tons of folks my old job in call center when we got chat bots in the App

Chat bots are the freaking worst. I wish we could all revolt.

You can choose not to use them. Resist

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a software engineer for a very big tech company, think of Cisco, Oracle, Palo Alto, and the my division just let go all junior SE, about 25 on staff, because AI can do a much better job. I think I will be out of a job very soon due to AI in about a year or so. The speed of improvement in AI is so scary.

We will be living in a totally different world -- in many ways -- within a year or two because of this. People don't understand how fast this will evolve.

Skynet in its infancy. Life imitating art.

[Anonymous]

Universal basic income. Now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:AI cannot make decisions. It can regurgitate what you train it on faster than a human.

For now, we are not in the matrix- but if you have a job that actually requires decision making you are fine.

Or, in matrix terminology- choice.

There’s a lot of cope here. Ofc they can make decisions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So what happens when the companies fire us all and then no one can afford the products and services they are selling?

Dickens vividly portrayed what happens.
Our current admin and tech bros couldn’t care less what happens to us. Just look at their big beautiful bill.🤷‍♂️

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Anonymous wrote:For software? Well, duh, people have been warning kids for years not to go into computer science unless they were ultra-smart and planning to complete for the few AI supervisory roles.

My kids are not going into CS.

I am glad I studied pure mathematics because it thought me how to solve hard problems. I am an electrical engineer and when I tell people my background and that I never took a single course in circuits or electronics they are shocked. Sadly though corporations today want workers who are ready from day 0. I don't think a young grad who studied pure math will be hired because he doesn't have the "practical" skills to be used from day 1.

Last time I checked all EEs have to take a fundamental "circuits" course. You don't build anything. It's mostly theoretical. If you know about Norton and Thevenin equivalents, you had this course.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We laid off tons of folks my old job in call center when we got chat bots in the App

Chat bots are the freaking worst. I wish we could all revolt.

You can choose not to use them. Resist

This is the point I’m getting to. I was getting car insurance quotes from various parties and one company was making me speak with an AI chatbot first. The stupid thing did not understand what I wanted so I hung up and refuse to get a quote from or use that company.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:AI cannot make decisions. It can regurgitate what you train it on faster than a human.

For now, we are not in the matrix- but if you have a job that actually requires decision making you are fine.

Or, in matrix terminology- choice.

AI is being trained on its own outputs (i.e. it’s a recursive model) and humans use those outputs to make decisions, plan lessons, edit their emails, write their papers, etc. We will be in the matrix when there are no longer any humans who can look at the incorrect outputs from AI and say “hey, that’s wrong!” Because at that point, the humans will have been effectively trained by AI.

[Anonymous]

I took a course in machine learning in 2003. We used a very old programming language called common lisp and for the final project we had to build an email spam detector using a sample of 10,000 emails.

I remember this very well our professor told us at that time that soon we will have microprocessors that will allow us to run models much faster regardless of the size of the data. Our professor told us when that time comes corporations would race to reduce their workforce with AI even if imperfect at first because of the cost savings. 21 years later was out professor correct?

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Healthcare workers are absolutely NOT safe!! AI will do triage based on patient inputs, data from smart watches and other device will replace nurses taking vital, and no human will be reading any sort of scan - cray, mri, ct. etc. we already have robotic surgery managed by human doctors but that may continue to evolve. There are very few safe professions.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a software engineer for a very big tech company, think of Cisco, Oracle, Palo Alto, and the my division just let go all junior SE, about 25 on staff, because AI can do a much better job. I think I will be out of a job very soon due to AI in about a year or so. The speed of improvement in AI is so scary.

Cisco has 10000 software devs. "All junior SE" at a company like that is 25 people?


https://futurism.com/the-byte/klarna-ceo-bragged-replacing-workers-ai-losses


"Swedish buy-now-pay-later company Klarna, whose CEO once bragged about its automated customer service AI bots doing the work of "700 full-time agents," is now in deep trouble.

The fintech outfit is facing net losses of $99 million for the first quarter of this year, CNBC reports, which is more than double compared to the same period last year.

The company had already paused its highly anticipated IPO in the US last month, which once valued it at over $15 billion."

+1 Chat bots is not Klarna's problem. Their problem is they were the middle man, the big payment processors can do this on their own. And while it sounded great, most people realize that buy now pay later is not a big benefit to them. Those that."need" to use it are also going to be the ones less likely to pay, and when forced, due to inflationary pressures, they are going to pay for their real needs first, eggs, car house/rent. Klarna and similar can only hope for the scraps of what they left. Dinging a poor persons credit doesn't really change their situation and a law suit for a couple of missed $12 payments on a pair of $100 shoes is a the epitome of flushing money down the toilet. As with most companies, things are great until the reality of not great times punches you in the face.

NP. What a dumb article, likely written by AI. Does not make any actual connection between the AI bots and the losses. Just two disparate facts.