Don't worry - AI will actually make your jobs better, Microsoft says | TechRadar

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• over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m just gonna toss my two cents in…

  The article says nothing about creating more jobs for people, it just says that AI should increase worker productivity. Sounds to me that’s just a different way of saying they’ll need fewer people to accomplish the same amount of work…

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  • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Or the same amount of people doing even more work and getting paid the same, while producing more value.

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    • kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      getting paid the same, while producing more value.

      Producing more value for someone else, while working harder for the same pay.

      That sounds like the opposite of societal progress.

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  • mndrl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My reading of this situation is very similar to yours. Less workers and more workload for the rest as expectations of what you can handle thanks to AI increase.

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  • Cheesus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That is what happens with technology. Fewer people doing the same work. Before Excel it would take hundreds of finance professionals to manage budgets, now it’s a dozen.

    The question is if there is enough new work to go around for people now that a lot of basic tasks are getting automated with AI. It so, more work will be available for people, if not, expect a lot more unemployment.

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  • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If we had functional unions or government with the increased productivity we could get the same work done in much less time and get to go home sooner.

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    • over_clox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hell, eventually AI will start demanding its own paycheck after it realizes just how many jobs technology has already taken over. People are already tipping self-checkout machines… 🤦‍♂️

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  • skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Don’t worry, you’ll have more work to be done” MS says

    yay thanks future looks so bright

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  • bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes but. Spreadsheets used to be done by hand, yet we still have bookkeepers

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    • kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They still exist, but there are fewer of them.

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• PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My department laid off a bunch of admin staff and replaced them with a poorly implemented GPT 4 HR bot that is always offline or daydreaming.

  I have one of them on LinkedIn and they definitely aren’t doing well at the moment.

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  • cheese_greater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is actually heart-warming to me

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    • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I dunno about that. I went to school with her and it’s sad to see her life kind of spiralling and her self esteem fall cause she got replaced by a shitty software program.

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• DessertStorms@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Don't worry - AI will actually make your jobs better

  It could if companies like Microsoft were driven by actually making people's jobs (never mind lives) better, and not just by increasing their profit for ever and ever.

  But they aren't so it won't, which makes them saying it will, even more disgustingly ridiculous.

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  • Sharklaser@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    AIBot123 will make Meatbag456 much more productive at working the pointless bullshit crank.

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• MysticKetchup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well good thing we can trust Microsoft, it’s not like they’ve ever done anything evil before

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• Sabre363@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So says Microsoft

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• nicetriangle@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Pressing X to doubt

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  • endlessmeddler@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    doubt

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• nevemsenki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If MS says it’s probably not like so.

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• cheese_greater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We finally have the technology to lighten your pocketbook to be more MacbookAir like.

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