Is it actually causing layoffs? Is it really being used productively anywhere? I'm not talking about CoPilot, but rather focused projects with a specific purpose. Would be interested in hearing from people involved with or affected by such endeavors, rather than the usual PR fluff that gets spewed by leadership.
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@1qr Who's whining? I was simply asking about what was actually happening at PepsiCo, dipsh-t.
Yes AI will replace many jobs, just like robots building cars and cars replacing horses. It’s called evolution. So now it feels close to home and you whine. Did you whine when the auto workers were impacted years ago? When copier makers got impacted by digital? When your phone eliminated the need for your Kodak? I suspect not.
The big unlock will be when SAP just becomes a system of record and agents connect into it. It will impact a lot of teams currently using SAP. In the end, I dont see the need for an overpriced SAP DB.
All ai is doing is causing people to get hurt while working excessive product in walmart back rooms
In the future, white collar work will consist entirely of managing AI agents. Meanwhile everyone will be trying to figure out precisely how many humans need to be in the mix. This won't be settled for a very long time, if ever. It's going to be a very weird and disturbing ride.
It's a bad time to be human. The dystopia is here and it's not going away.
@OP A lot of this is just fluff. Take Ciro, the AI sustainability agent. It basically chats with you and pulls info straight from sharepoint. They spent serious money on that, though it’s the kind of thing my 14-year-old could probably throw together over an afternoon. What snake oil AK is selling
I'm guessing you'll see AI automation at Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, and Google first. Pepsi will have to hire Anthropic to tell them what AI is before automating jobs.
Goldman Sachs is slowly working to automate many accounting/business ops jobs.
AI is being used in production, for route planning, being tested for order writing… and many more areas
They've been doing on automation and AI since the Industrial Revolution era, haven't they? It was nothing new.
I don't think we need 300,000 employees, we should cut hugely.