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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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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.”

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Someone should make a really good AI suite for CEO tasks

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years 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)