Thread regarding Intel Corp. layoffs

I would be amusing if Intel were to hire a bunch of humanoid robots, only to find them spending most of their day sitting in the cafe, trolling on this website.

After all, they can only do what they are trained to do.

Mark andreeson is expecting billions of humanoid robots, as stated in a recent interview.

The tech bros are all in on this trend, much like what they are doing with AI.

Guess they feel like these two technologies are better than dealing with humans.

Regardless, this is coming in a big way. Investing in this and AI may offset the endless job loss most are going to start experiencing.

Sheeple are in denial about this, thinking it will somehow affect everyone but them, meanwhile AI and robotics companies are providing testimonials from customers that they want both of these technologies asap.

Customers are stating they want to use both technologies to replace workers, while the providers keep talking about how both technologies will mostly just augment the existing workforce.

The millisecond a worker can be replaced, they are gonna be history, and no one will ever be hired for that job again..ever.

This is the real layoff, and it is going to happen (along with AI) simultaneously in many companies, so there will be no escape.

There will also be no layoff notice. Companies will just reduce hiring and get progressively tougher on the dwindling number of existing employees.

Intel is getting good practice at that, but what's coming will be the steepest exodus of labor..ever.

The bunnysuit savings alone will pay for these robots, once they are being built in scale and the price settles down.

Intel pays a fortune each time a worker uses a bunnysuit, plus the original cost.

And don't even get me started on the tent-sized bunnysuits.

No doubt humanoid robots are going to sweep over all manufacturing and distribution, especially where the existing workforce has relatively low skills and above average pay for what they contribute.

For everyone else, see how soon you find yourself reporting to an AI manager, because that is even easier to deploy and companies like Amazon and rideshare companies have highly developed apps which in many cases are very actively managing employees.

Read about what it is like to be a package delivery driver. They are monitored with cameras, with package delivery productivity timed to the second. Not a great stretch to transfer that to someone working on a laptop.

Workers will be given tasks and then closely monitored on the completion of those tasks.

It'll be like the Office Space manager standing in your cube all day long, asking about TPS reports, but more impersonal.

Good News: Intel has a plan to eliminate most managers.

Bad News: C3PO is your new manager.

The real question is whether the humanoid robots will develop a taste for M&M infused donuts and Mtn Dew for breakfast.

If so then that would be a first sign that nothing really has changed.

All the 🚕 drivers were replaced by fsd robotaxis already. Every single one of them.

Considering this as enemy armies invasion on our streets. Let drive them down before it is too late.

@es+1 Those who are deemed noncompliant will have their electronic money degraded.

Oh, and cash is on the way out.

You can see what is coming but it won't make any difference. Might even be better to remain ignorant, because at least then you won't be so paranoid.

And do consider having someone look at that rash.

He fails to realize that some of us have been planning against said robots for 30 years. Bring it, let's see who wins.

@cg+1 Attacking the robots will be considered destruction of property and will get you some time in the clinker.

The robots may be networked with the police and home robots, so don't be too surprised if suddenly attacked by your maid-bot wielding a baseball bat (which will be considered an equipment malfunction).

Resistance is futile.

@ee+1j Soylent Green is the final solution to the human question.

Our work is going to be to take dr-gs and food pills until the rich find out an efficient way to eliminate the scourge that is lower and middle class.

Better headline: "Humanoid robots and not prepared for society."
I hear they nice pop sound when you hit um with a bat.

@b3+1 I don't think the fab techs are amused when the bunny suit shoe is on the other robotic foot.

I think the first four responses to this post is the same person who thinks themselves to be funny, but not so much.

I don't believe OP will be a fab tech in 5 years.

@a2+ Looks like some of the XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXL fab techs just finished their latest couple hours in the cafe, su-king down Mtn Dew and Snickers bars like that was real food, and are not pleased to hear that they will soon be discovering the intricacies of Cobra and state unemployment insurance.

Guess we have to mark them down as not interested in retraining.

It's ok, because soylent green is people, so they will ultimately find a new purpose.

Bunch of BS.
The humanoid robots will seize within 30 minutes as the CPUs lock up because of BIOS bugs we can never fix.
Running a robot in manufacturing is way easier than having a humanoid robot walking around that can't negotiate around a banana peel on the ground.

Not to be serious about this, but robots are needed to replace humans as the global population is peaking and expected to go into secular decline.

Any fab robot would have to be hardened for electromagnetic interference, so would not be at risk for EMP. Think about years of that exposure means to the non-robotic humanoid..

True that a lot of low skilled and often hazardous work will be the first to be replaced by robots, but governments are already discussing a robot tax to make up for lost tax revenues, and some of that money would help workers up their skills.

Both robotic and AI are highly sought after skills, so go back to school and get on those career paths. This is even bigger than when the internet made it into the office environment and will result in many high paying jobs. Or chose to remain low skill and see how that works out.

Reality is that AI and AI enabled robots are coming on fast and are an unstoppable force. Resistance is futile.

If society isn't ready for it then why do it? I already know the answer... greedy people want more money. They should replace the CEO of OpenAI with a robot... and then turn it off.

No humans = No Consumers
No Consumers = No Economy

Fu-k around and find out!

I'm thinking of the irony of getting in some pointless team-bonding Big Al's Bowling time in at an (unfunded) quarterly, only to find that many of the lanes are occupied by fab robots.

The irony is of course that most of the Big Al's staff are former fab workers.

Imagine walking through the parking garage on your way to another awesome day of RTO, only to find a bunch of the fab robots sleeping in their cars.

This raises some interesting questions:

#1: Why do they have cars?
#2: Do they really need to sleep?
#3: Do they dream of free coffee and bananas?
#4: Is Intel paying them to sleep in their car and dream of free coffee and bananas?

Hopefully by 'humanoid' they won't resemble most of the humanoids hanging out in the fab, chatting with each other and staring blankly at the machines.

It would be somewhat amusing if immediately upon deployment, 60% of the robots migrate to the cafe and start texting each other and watching tiktok on their phone.

Imagine the surprise when the robots are swarming the fab.

No need for the XXXXXXXXL bunny suits any more.

Seriously, what are they feeding those fab techs?