Microsoft Lays Off 1,500 Workers, Blames “AI Wave”
https://futurism.com/the-byte/microsoft-layoffs-blaming-ai-wave
Microsoft Lays Off 1,500 Workers, Blames “AI Wave”
https://futurism.com/the-byte/microsoft-layoffs-blaming-ai-wave
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Submission statement: how do you think AI advances will affect jobs? If humans can do it, how long before AIs will be able to do it better?
If UBI’s a possible solution, how would that work? What about for the countries that didn’t invent AI? How do you prevent such a concentration of wealth causing massive inequality and issues?
Opinion: “AI” has been used as a convenient excuse to lay off people and promote the “AI” products at the same time.
Crazy we just sit by and allow AI to destroy the job markets like the pathetic peasants we are.
Microsoft Lays Off 1,500 Workers, Blames itself.
OpenAI IS MicrosoftAI.
But the Executives will still get bonus increases year on year
Babe, wake up, new “supply change issues” excuse just dropped
Reddit hates rich people and this is probably 1,500 rich people being let go….decisions decisions for anger
This is crap!
They cut funding to a bunch of programs to channel it into AI.
It’s not “AI taking jobs” as AI replacing humans. Said simply they’re cutting jobs to hire up in other divisions.
The layoffs are only caused by AI in the sense that they’re scaling down departments unrelated to AI to reinvest the money in AI.
This isn’t robots taking peoples’ jerbs.
Reminds me of this meme I made: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Memes_Of_The_Dank/comments/1d6w8tf/the_ai_cope_is_unreal/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Memes_Of_The_Dank/comments/1d6w8tf/the_ai_cope_is_unreal/)
We are slaves to innovation.
It’s simultaneously interesting and harrowing to watch.
The UBI works if it’s fully funded by an automation tax of 50% on all big tech companies
If they mean that AI funding is burning a hole in their cash pile then yeah, I understand.
Gonna be a very interesting world when white collar workers livelihood is threatened and they experience job insecurity like the middle class.
Why can’t they make AI do my dishes or my laundry instead of my art and programming