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From Zuckerberg, for example: >> "a lot of the code in our apps and including the AI that we generate, is actually going to be built by AI engineers instead of

From Zuckerberg, for example: >> "a lot of the code in our apps and including the AI that we generate, is actually going to be built by AI engineers instead of people engineers." https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/meta-developing-ai-engineers-to-write-code-instead-of-humans/485806 https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/meta-developing-a... Ikea's been doing this for a while: >> Ingka says it has trained 8,500 call centre workers as interior design advisers since 2021, while Billie - launched the same year with a name inspired by IKEA's Billy bookcase range - has handled 47% of customers' queries to call centres over the past two years. https://www.reuters.com/technology/ikea-bets-remote-interior-design-ai-changes-sales-strategy-2023-06-13/ https://www.reuters.com/technology/ikea-bets-remote-interior...

dwnw 2y ago
By your own admission, Ikea eliminated 0 jobs and you gave no number for Meta.
- adamredwoods 2y ago
  Do you expect all companies to retrain? Do you expect CEOs to be wrong? Do you expect AI to stay the same, get better, or get worse? I never made the claim that new jobs will NOT be made, that is yet to be seen, but jobs will be lost to AI. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/18/bt-cut-jobs-telecoms-group-workforce https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/18/bt-cut-jobs... >> “For a company like BT there is a huge opportunity to use AI to be more efficient,” he said. “There is a sort of 10,000 reduction from that sort of automated digitisation, we will be a huge beneficiary of AI. I believe generative AI is a huge leap forward; yes, we have to be careful, but it is a massive change.” Goldman Sacs: https://www.gspublishing.com/content/research/en/reports/2023/03/27/d64e052b-0f6e-45d7-967b-d7be35fabd16.html https://www.gspublishing.com/content/research/en/reports/202... >> Extrapolating our estimates globally suggests that generative AI could expose the equivalent of 300mn full-time jobs to automation.
  - throw83288 2y ago
    I'm on your side, but there's two readings of these reports: 1) "We are serious, this is going to happen." 2) "AI is big right now so if we hype it we might get some money!"

dwnw 2y ago

By your own admission, Ikea eliminated 0 jobs and you gave no number for Meta.

adamredwoods 2y ago
Do you expect all companies to retrain? Do you expect CEOs to be wrong? Do you expect AI to stay the same, get better, or get worse? I never made the claim that new jobs will NOT be made, that is yet to be seen, but jobs will be lost to AI. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/18/bt-cut-jobs-telecoms-group-workforce https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/18/bt-cut-jobs... >> “For a company like BT there is a huge opportunity to use AI to be more efficient,” he said. “There is a sort of 10,000 reduction from that sort of automated digitisation, we will be a huge beneficiary of AI. I believe generative AI is a huge leap forward; yes, we have to be careful, but it is a massive change.” Goldman Sacs: https://www.gspublishing.com/content/research/en/reports/2023/03/27/d64e052b-0f6e-45d7-967b-d7be35fabd16.html https://www.gspublishing.com/content/research/en/reports/202... >> Extrapolating our estimates globally suggests that generative AI could expose the equivalent of 300mn full-time jobs to automation.
- throw83288 2y ago
  I'm on your side, but there's two readings of these reports: 1) "We are serious, this is going to happen." 2) "AI is big right now so if we hype it we might get some money!"