Cisco to lay off more than 4,000 employees to focus on artificial intelligence::Cisco revealed plans to slash its headcount by 5% on Wednesday, which will affect roughly 4,250 employees across the tech behemoth’s global workforce.
“AI isn’t good enough to replace workers yet, but it’s good enough to convince CEOs it can.”
AI isn’t good enough to replace workers, but it could probably replace C-suite executives at astronomical savings to the company
One of the truest things I know about AI is: “we’re nowhere near a place where bots can steal your job, we’re certainly at the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that fails at doing your job”
https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/11/robots-stole-my-jerb/#computer-says-no
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With all these companies pivoting to the creation of AI products, this seems like a great opportunity for someone to step in and create … Checks notes … absolutely anything else.
I can’t wait to watch these companies all get their marketshare eaten by “ToddCo”, a company where a guy named Todd figures out that be can poach Starbucks employees and get better results than these AI deliver.
The sixty minutes interview is going to be epic:
“Then it struck me! Sure, James writes my name wrong on my cup every day, but he’s never once misjudged how many limbs I have!”
“Our company is invested in the dynamic strategy of using people to solve problems. Person Intelligence or PI, as we call it. We know our strategy is out of favor now, but given that it has worked consistently throughout all of human history, we are hopeful for the future.”
poach Starbucks employees and get better results than these AI deliver.
Newsflash: Starbucks coffee already isn’t that great. Then they’ll take the savings from firing all the baristas and buy out “ToddCo”.
Really kind of them to let their investors know first, rather than the people impacted. I bet morale there is wonderful.
How do you lay off people to focus on something?
Did they went “daaaamn, we want to focus on AI, but we already have people for that job, let’s fire them”?>> "We are an AI company now! Hey Bob, do you know AI?" ## "No... ?" >> "FIRED! Joe, do you know AI?" ## "I can learn about..." >> "FIRED! Bill, do you know AI? ## "... yes?" >> "You can stay. I'm heading to the next floor to ask if they know AI!"They asked ChatGPT for a good explanation of why people are getting laid off.
Have any of these companies gotten anywhere after dumping people to focus on ai whatever that even means?
No matter what happens they’ll tell investors it was a huge success.
They’ll be fine for a time until competition emerges and their products become obsolete.
And thus the cycle begins again
AI is going to be awesome, and I am so down for it.
But today, the emperor has no clothes.
Butt naked.
Not a fucking scrap of clothing is on that guy.
Good luck Cisco, you’re going to need it.
Padme: But then you’ll hire some back right? Right?
So where are the 300,000+ AI computer companies that all these tech workers across the whole sector will so easily just migrate to?
The argument is always “the new scary tool will just come with its own needs that need to be serviced which is where the displaced workers will go.”
Yeah… IDK about that. The coal miners were supposed to be retraining to be programmers, we just decapitated that idea, so now what?
I never had much of a great view of the future, but it only seems to be getting worse…
The coal miners will be mining for burgers at McDonald’s
But what will the burger flippers move to?
