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IBM CEO in damage control mode after AI job loss comments (www.itpro.com)

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IBM CEO in damage control mode after AI job loss comments::IBM CEO Arvind Krishna appears to be in a state of damage control following recent controversial comments on AI-related job losses.

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[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 18 points 1 year ago

As far as I can tell, the troublesome comments were:

“That means you can get the same work done with fewer people,” he said at the time. “That’s just the nature of productivity. I actually believe that the first set of roles that will get impacted are - what I call - back office, white-collar work.”

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Someone should make a really good AI suite for CEO tasks

[-] pdxfed@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Every piece of data available shows no correlation between executive pay and performance. Fire your CEO and save the cash on AI.

[-] ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

The only thing chatgpt does well is pump out corporate fluff, I'd say we're already there.

[-] bitsplease@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

ability to make decisions based on arbitrary gut feelings, then blame everyone under you when things go wrong
ability to take 1 sentence of meaningful info and turn it into a full press release filled with nonsense and buzz words
general inability to actually produce anything with consistent quality without requiring high levels of supervision
costs hundreds of millions of dollars per year

As far as I can tell, the only one of those that chatGPT doesn't already do is the last point, and I guess you could just light the money on fire (or if you wanna get really crazy, use it to increase worker pay)

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