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> HP posted the above today, announcing the layoffs of several thousand workers on the basis that AI may deliver on its promises in the next three years. My f
by aleph_minus_one 11mo ago
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HP posted the above today, announcing the layoffs of several thousand workers on the basis that AI may deliver on its promises in the next three years.
My feeling is that this story has barely anything to do with AI. AI was rather a "socially acceptable" welcome excuse for firing lots of people (which may be necessary or be a bad idea; we'll see).
- altairprime 11mo agoThey’re rational actors, though, right? So one can assume that they wouldn’t put a billion dollars of revenue at risk if they didn’t have a plan for replacing the efforts of those workers — and since they’re a publicly traded company, and this is a material forward-looking statement, there would be SEC penalties if they don’t truly mean what they said about AI replacing the workers. Any rational company would take care not to knowingly lie here without having done enough due diligence to have plausible affirmability of what they claim. (If they’re behaving irrationally, then of course all interpretations are void, but that would invalidate the rationality basis of the comment thread I’m responding to, so I’m not considering that branch of possibilities in this specific thread.)