https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjkCSQndS1E
16k layoffs at Amazon, totaling 30k over the past year, or ~10%. The most important thing he said in the video was this (paraphrasing):
They are laying off AI Safety researchers and security experts in lieu of hiring more pure developers with a primary goal of automating as much as they possibly can. It would be prudent to watch these tech companies who are leading the pack and understand that what they are doing is a preview of what is to come.
@bc Which chatbot has encouraged you to believe you're the misunderstood genius here?
@at People who think if it as nothing more than a chatbot are the ones who are going to be the most shocked. You can't really blame the dinosaurs at Wells Fargo though, seeing as the best tool they have access to is MS Copilot.
AI Safety researchers and security experts are like lifeguards in Olympic swimming pool, or European regulators regulate things Europe doesn't produce. No one would notice if they disappear.
makes sense, the kind of people d-mb enough to be taken in by this trash technology are also the ones d-mb enough to be replaced by a chatbot
There's something genuinely pathetic about being so eager to parrot a CEO's excuse to lay people off.
"Snake oil guy gets replaced by snake oil- it's actually that good!"
source: snake oil salesman