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[-] laranis@lemmy.zip 8 points 11 hours ago

Prove it. Do yours first.

[-] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 11 hours ago

Sure buddy, right after full self driving probably. Maybe he should go and circlejerk it with Melon Husk.

[-] Binturong@lemmy.ca 19 points 15 hours ago

Firstly, citation needed on the evidence to support this wild claim, secondly that is NOT a good thing for society, only for corporate overlords, and only in the extraordinarily short term. If nobody has jobs, nobody has money, if nobody has money, who the fuck is buying your shit-ass products??? These allegedly brilliant CEO clearly failed Econ101, and I'm so fucking tired of having to hear their brain-dead takes that are just wish-casting to cope over the terrible investment they've gone all in on.

[-] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

They didn't fail econ 101, everything they learned taught them to do this. They don't consider macroeconomics when making business decisions. It's all about this quarter, baby. If shit breaks, the government picks up the bill.

[-] Binturong@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 hours ago

Sadly I think you're right, and that last part is the unsustainable part; I don't think any one of them considers what it means for them personally when this all hits the wall and comes to an abrupt halt. All those billions of dollars will be meaningless when the global economy shifts away from the US dollar as the reserve and you end up with trillion dollar bills like Zimbabwe. It's just economic suicide, even for the owners and CEOs, but they're so brain-rotted and coked out they can't or won't see it. If you ask me they belong in some sort of rehab program after their assets have been seized, or in jail. The amount of social harm done through jobs lost and economic devastation eclipses a thousand fold a street level murder, we need to start looking at financial crime differently.

[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago

Including CEOs

[-] 0ops@piefed.zip 43 points 18 hours ago

They said that 12-18 months ago

[-] nucleative@lemmy.world 10 points 17 hours ago

I think the problem they cannot solve yet is a) knowing what to do and b) knowing when it's properly done.

The result is possibly more output per qualified human, but with your competition having the same tool, you're just keeping pace, not advancing.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 hours ago

but with your competition having the same tool, you’re just keeping pace, not advancing.

But isn't that actually what most advancements have been? More things can be done with fewer people or fewer resources, competition gets it too, but overall, society advances.

The major problem is the whole needing to have a job thing. If we all profited from this, it would be awesome, wouldn't it

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago
[-] markovs_gun@lemmy.world 10 points 16 hours ago

They've been saying this shit for the past 5 years. Idk how investors keep falling for this scam

[-] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 6 points 14 hours ago

Does he consider himself a blue collar worker or what?

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 hours ago

Red collar.

It's the blood of the working class that makes it red.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 11 hours ago

No no no, he and other chief whatevers are gold collar workers, because they're suuuuuuuper important and very hard to replace because they have so many skills!!!

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 11 hours ago

Microslop is still desperately trying to sell their ai bullshit as the second coming of Jesus in cost savings. They know, and we know, that that's pure bullshit. They can feel shareholders breathing down their necks at all this spending on ai going nowhere.

[-] StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago

I disagree, some of them genuinely believe the garbage coming out of their mouths

[-] Visstix@lemmy.world 54 points 22 hours ago
[-] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 24 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Snake oil salesman: "Most illnesses cured by snake oil within 12-18 months"

[-] Noite_Etion@lemmy.world 49 points 22 hours ago

Several leaders in the AI industry have warned of impending mass job replacement.

Careful everyone, the AI we made is about to fuck you all over... Anyways try copilot!

[-] rozodru@piefed.world 29 points 21 hours ago

yeah I remember a year ago when they said the same. They keep moving the goal posts because they HOPE it'll happen, but it's not going to. LLM's across the board, regardless of the company, have progressively become worse. They've sunk billions into something that simply isn't improving and they either don't know how to improve it or are just praying to whatever gods they believe in that it will some how magically get good.

There's nothing left to feed these things. For example you can go to Claude right now and ask it something so painfully simple that there's a strong chance it'll hallucinate a solution. not even a strong chance, a guaranteed chance. Like I just asked it "With the Fish Shell how can I get cat < notes.txt to work?" it didn't know how. it presented 3 options all of which were wrong. It claimed I was using an older version of Fish that doesn't support Heredocs. that's not true. Fish doesn't support Heredocs at all, period, and never has.

[-] oktoberpaard@piefed.social 5 points 18 hours ago

I agree that comments like this are just hype. However, this is what Claude responded first try when I asked it your question verbatim:

Fish doesn’t support the <<EOF heredoc syntax — that’s a Bash/POSIX feature. Here are your options in Fish: Use printf or echo:

printf '%s\n' \
  'line 1' \
  'line 2' \
  'line 3' > notes.txt

Use begin/end with a string:

echo "line 1
line 2
line 3" > notes.txt

Use string with multiline input:

string collect -- "line 1
line 2
line 3" > notes.txt

Or just call bash inline for a one-off heredoc:

bash -c 'cat <<EOF > notes.txt
line 1
line 2
line 3
EOF'

The printf approach is generally the most idiomatic Fish way to do it.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

[-] Feyd@programming.dev 16 points 19 hours ago

"CEO said something without any evidence or reason" articles that just parrot said CEO without any thought or analysis of any kind are completely pointless.

[-] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 3 points 17 hours ago

It's why CEOs really like AI, they're both just saying whatever they think their customer wants to hear.

[-] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Wow, that’s a great point that you made! Let me take that under consideration!

[-] Zier@fedia.io 29 points 21 hours ago

Breaking newz: Microsoft AI CEO, replaced with an AI CEO. AI AI CEO! Sing along kids!

[-] Juice@midwest.social 12 points 19 hours ago

AI CEO!
AI CEO!
AI CEO! And Mecha Hitler was its name-o

[-] Lugh@futurology.today 33 points 22 hours ago

The cognitive dissonance it must take to usher in the conditions for a communist revolution, while simultaneously bankrolling Donald Trump, proves US Big Tech is run by people who are far less smart than they think they are.

[-] Rothe@piefed.social 27 points 22 hours ago

They are smart at one thing: shortsighted profit. That is all. Everything else is an irrelevant skill.

"Can you make our line go up?"

"Yes, but it will tank the economy and your company with it"

"So you can make our line go up? You're hired!"

[-] Kraiden@piefed.social 17 points 22 hours ago

Big Tech is run by people who are far less ~~smart~~ scared than they ~~think they are~~ should be

FTFY

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[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 11 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Mate, your job may be pure useless wank that cen be replaced with a virtual parrot, mine is not.

[-] cv_octavio@piefed.ca 9 points 18 hours ago

We should start with the positions that exhaust the largest percentage of the profit margin then. Namely: the c suite.

[-] paultimate14@lemmy.world 13 points 20 hours ago

Is there anyone out there compiling a lost of all these hilariously wrong predictions that CEO's and billionaires make about science and technology?

Pretty sure I heard the same exact predictions back in 2020 when GPT3 rolled out.

Reminds me of how Musk predicts shit like "we'll be on Mars in 5 years" or "we will have fullly autonomous cars within 2 years" every few years.

[-] luciole@beehaw.org 13 points 22 hours ago

Just another data farm bro I swear just one more petabyte of stolen work it's not random it's hallucinating wow it's the future have you heard sam bro one more year and you'll fire all your employees bro I swear

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 12 points 22 hours ago

May you be the first

[-] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 19 hours ago

Bro, you're a white collar worker

[-] evenglow@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago
[-] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 18 hours ago

Well, yeah. Of course the most useless and expensive white collar workers are going to be exempt. But a boy can dream...

[-] Asafum@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

"What will happen to all these people who can no longer work?

"...I'm sorry, do I look like someone who gives a shit about other people? Peasants die all the time, what's a few hundred million more?"

[-] Carl@hexbear.net 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

With AI, "12-18 months" is the new "in ten years".

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

Hey look, an article about microslop and AI that’s not specifically about crazy-ass bugs introduced into the system or how its destroying the company.

[-] verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 3 points 19 hours ago

They learned from Musk

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