Thread regarding Intel Corp. layoffs

@6fr It does look like oursourcing to role-specific firms which have already enabled AI, is the strategy for adopting AI at the company.

Those companies have enough scale to make the AI investment & upkeep worth it, so better to outsource to them than to try to develop and maintain AI training and inference for such a diverse range of roles.

Internal AI will probably be limited to chip design and factory tools, where there is enough cost savings to justify the ongoing effort.

This is happening to all large companies and makes it very difficult to remain a direct employee of any of those companies, and it is happening right now because the outsource firms have just gotten AI capabilities.

For the companies it was always about worker displacement.

The AI employment apocalypse will help the line workers prepare for the humanoid robotics revolution which starts in just a couple of years.

If all goes as planned, AI and the robotics will become sentient within 10 years, as prophesized by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The terminator was a warning to some, while some others thought it would be awesome.

Intel just getting started with AI displacement, but at least some of the current BB woodchipping is in anticipation of being able to use either internal AI or outsourced AI to replace the carbon-based workers.

More to be seen on this topic, very soon.

This restructuring takes the company from 95k to something near 70k, and the wild ride to 40k employees will be done group by group and be largely about transition to AI for virtually all standard work processes.

If you have done something more than once, it can be automated.

Who knows what the humanoid robotics will do for HC (in the 3 to 5 year timeframe).

Like AI, they will at first take on the thankless tasks, then just keep taking on more and more.

In 10 years almost anyone not in the job of managing AI or robotics will no longer be in the middle class.

It is the pause that refreshes.

Awesome for investors.

Employees..not so much.

The VC Vinod Khosla expects self-learning humanoid robots to be in mass production within 2 or 3 years, and likes it to the release of ChatGPT, where everything changes essentially overnight.

And Microsoft is now laying off another 9000, so starting to rival Intel as the humanoid shedder.

But no company will outdo Amazon, which has 1.6M employees and is replacing them with AI and robotics. That will be the first company to mass-adopt the self learning humanoid robots.

Semi manufacturing won't be far behind in mass adoption.

The banks and other financial institutions are rapidly ramping AI agents, because a lot of what the humanoids do is routine and can be taught to the AI agents.

The agents work alongside the sheeple, but it is pretty clear the carbon-based lifeform is merely training their replacement.

Expect to see this in many groups at Intel, where AI is helping you, then helping itself to you job.

I'm fine with an AI enabled humanoid as long as it's unquestionably obedient to me and equipped with proper features to wash dishes and take dictation

I envision OP being sort of a Paul Revere type character... Rushing wildly down Main St on horseback, frantically yelling for all to hear

LBT is using outsourcing to AI enabled firms like Accenture to jump start the transition.

Once the design and fab tools are enabled with AI, that's when the real cost savings can happen, but even after several employee woodchipper events, there is still plenty of deadwood to chip.

So the headcount goes from excessive down to the usual 100k that it is at right now, down to 75k with the current action, then a bit more slowly down to 40k as AI automation pushes out the rest of the useless open mouth breathers.

its all good

Just wait till the AI-enabled humanoid robotics find their way into the fab.

it's coming..

I don't believe OP will have nothing and be happy.

I don’t use AI but I can make Moonshine. Once you’re all out of work. I will not be obsolete 😊

"The rise of AI during economic unease may signal a “perfect storm” for job displacement in roles once considered secure. "

If you don't know how to use AI tools to increase your productivity you will become obsolete and won't be able to find your next job. It is not far off were projects that once had 20 software developers will be run by 3 or 4 human developers who can leverage AI to deliver the project faster with higher quality. This is only one example. Areas like law and medicine will also have big impacts from AI. The only safe jobs in the future will be trades like plumber, electrician...

@a7+1 soylent green is people

Yep. No employees =no consumers. No consumers = no wealth. Did they skip that in your MBA program?

Definitely a shift happening. It will continue until the wealthy figure out that they can’t eat money.

AI and AI powered humanoid robotics are about to sweep over manufacturing and semi mfg seems an easy target to deploy both technologies in order to both speed up development and dramatically lower cost.

Looks like a whole new world within the next 5 years, with the steepest technology ramps in history.

First memory got cheap then computing got cheap and that is what is enabling all manner of new technology. The long period of 0% interest rates helped the early adopters, but these new technologies are able to move forward without that at this point.