It was not that long ago that the murmurs of Artificial Intelligence crept into our general conversation, just like computers did back in the late ’70s. And as technological advancements go, this naturally sparked fears that A.I. will take our jobs. Despite the reassurance from tech bros that “It’s really nonsense” and we have nothing to worry about, the day has come when they get to eat their own words.
A couple of days ago, Suumit Shah, the CEO of the e-commerce platform Dukaan, boasted about replacing 90% of his support staff with an A.I. chatbot. “Time to first response went from 1m 44s to INSTANT!” he gleefully wrote. No surprise, then, that this has sparked an online backlash, with Shah trying to fend off thousands of online haters. In one of his replies, the CEO said, “It was a tough decision.” Sure. But no amount of broken-heart emojis will make up for all the employees that were sacked from their positions because of cost-saving 1s and 0s.
It’s no secret that with the rise of A.I., our fears of being replaced by 1s and 0s naturally rise as well
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After one tech CEO decided to boast about replacing almost all supporting staff with a ChatBot named “Lina”, it wasn’t the salutes that showered him
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The fear of A.I. taking over is getting too real – even Elon Musk says so
We all saw it coming to this, right? Not to sound too gloomy, but we all have been watching Netflix’s Black Mirror, sensing that it doesn’t sound too sci-fi with all the rapid advancements in A.I. and layoffs dominating headlines. After all, even Elon Musk, who only a few days ago announced a new venture that aims to create AI that can “understand the universe,” warned everyone about becoming too dependent on artificial intelligence. He might be responsible for massive layoffs at Tesla and Twitter. Also, for making A.I. powerful enough to crush the best-of-the-best at one of the most difficult video games there is. But at least man is no fool enough to replace human workers with self-learning machines (yet).
The bad news is, people have a right to worry. While tech experts around the world try to calm everyone down, promising that there’ll be harmony between A.I. and humans, almost half of the employees (49% to be exact) fear they will be pushed overboard thanks to cost-effective automatons, according to a new survey by Microsoft.
For all those who aren’t worried that ChatGPT isn’t eyeing their position, then, a recent Goldman Sachs report has some bad news – some of which is evident by today’s headline. According to it, the automation and advancement of A.I. will replace the equivalent of 300 million jobs worldwide this year, with legal and administrative workers most likely to be susceptible to this disruption.
As expected, the Twitter audience didn’t shy away from giving their two cents on CEO’s clumsy announcement
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