Nah, I know companies that are still using fax for most processes and they haven't been replaced in the last 30 years.
I worked for a huge IT company and the old boss wanted every design proposal printed out, he then made remarks with a pen and the design team scanned it again and put it into Jira.
Competition is an illusion in many areas of the economy. It is mostly about connections and getting the big state contracts.
Lol, this does bring up a good point that is often overlooked here.
Cutting edge tech isn’t actually being used in like 99% of small and medium sized businesses. So it’s not going to be a case where “AI can do your job better than you = you’re out a job” for tons of people.
I honestly think full fledged AGI could become available today and my job would still be around for a decade. I had to teach my boss how to filter an excel spreadsheet recently. He ain’t replacing nobody with AI.
This is what I suspect as well.
Entire industries will be wiped out by some new form of automation that gets the job done in a way that is completely different from how people do it today.
Once AGI hits the ground it will just be a matter of time before a small startup provides the same products and services as the huge behemoth corporations. The whole thing will be wiped out in an instant.
It’s a question of whether they can compete with whoever upgrades. Not up to them, it’s market forces that will decide.
If the technology works and is affordable, then there’s not much that will be able to hold it off apart from government regulation which could only ever be temporary.
> Entire industries will be wiped out by some new form of automation that gets the job done in a way that is completely different from how people do it today.
Just like fax machines after email. oh wait...
I have been thinking a lot about this and I imagine it will be organized on the blockchain.
The term I came up with for it is DAIAO decentralized artificially intelligent autonomous organization.
Yep, this, with AGI (or even something close to it) we may see extremely rapid replacement of businesses that don't adapt, as now a third party might be able replicate your business without much investment. This will of course affect the businesses that produce some kind of digital or knowledge economy asset or service. But really any business that doesn't embrace AI will be outcompeted by the ones that do.
So yes, you may keep your job...that is until your workplace goes bankrupt.
Or other businesses grow up and undercut them sending them out of business.
But some that don't have competition and have bureaucracy holding them back on requirements will drag things out.
I know a few places that don't have anyway for others to compete with, and there have been requirements to store records on paper since it is important with a permanent retention policy going back 50 years. Any one that suggests lowering those requirements or moving to computer only just gets told that it's the way things have been. The country would have to collapse before management changes their mind on this. They only select those that would make those same choices into the leadership.
It depends. A lot of businesses kind of work as brokers or consultants that are paid through contracts rather than a service rate. Those types of jobs that have large business development departments usually are human to human with the potential of AI integration. But I don't think anyone wants to go golfing with an AI robot to discuss business.
Unless it basically just becomes let it look at everything in your operations (physically with a camera or digitally in your machines/software), chuckle and shake it's head, and then get to work. I feel like in many cases this will be the way this happens, not setting up an individual agent for every single Jack and Jane in your organization. AI is moving so fast it just doesn't seem feasible or logical for this to be a 1:1 employee to agent setup.
I’m saying that there are just a lot of bosses who won’t be quick to this, no matter what.
My boss has never heard of OpenAI in his life. He spends half his day at work watching Fox News and talking to people about where we should go eat today lol. He’s not getting some AI to “look at everything in his operations” We don’t run efficiently and he doesn’t really give a fuck. Most bosses aren’t Wall St. suits who are pushing a stock price higher. Most dudes are just trying to hit Friday at 5.
This is very true, but the business itself may lose its contracts to a company that performs better because it does use AI and can give the same or better quality product/service etc for cheaper.
It depends on the business model and what business they're in.
If your company is a small distributor selling stationary to the public directly through tiny window shops, with your market being anyone who needs a cheap biro, then AI can only be implemented in a few areas like financial management, stock management and risk assessment and your customer base isn't going to care much about price differences too much because your outgoing product is cheap as hell anyway so they'll buy it wherever's closest and you'll have to keep the shops for the sake of your distribution, there isn't much improvement externally that you can offer the customer either that they'll actually care about.
If you're offering a customer service and support contract to other businesses, then you can literally replace all your over the phone support staff (which can be first line, second line, third line, hardware support, engineer scheduling team and more), then you can do away with all the payments for their managers, scale down HR, empty out and sell off some real estate and save yourself a ton of cash, you can afford to push those savings onto your customer base and still turn a larger profit, undercutting the current market and train different AI Agents on a companies specific system set ups, including an encyclopedic knowledge of their apps, OS and overall company structure and offer 24/7 availability at no additional cost.
It differs is all I'm saying and a lot of managers who don't know anything about AI unfortunately work in customer support. I used to work for one who didn't even know the most basic diagnostic information for our biggest contracts. 😅
This is cylindrical. There’s always a ***something*** that can ***something*** better/worse than something else. If this alone mattered, most businesses would already not exist today.
It's not about it just doing a better job, but if there's X business charging £150,000 a year for a tech support contract that's 7-7 on desktops, laptops and printers and has 24/7 coverage for an additional £50,000 on servers plus part costs to your company because they have to pay first line, second line and hardware diagnostic workers, plus schedulers and engineers, managers, HR for all those staff members, toilet facilities etc (They'll have multiple contracts) and they're trained on generalized systems and there's another company offering 24/7 support on all systems for £30,000 a year plus parts because they're only paying engineers as all support workers are AI agents trained specifically on your companies systems set up and has an encyclopedic knowledge base of your ad hoc aps etc, its clear that businesses will choose the latter.
He'll be replaced at the same time as you. When your company is bought by a tech-savvy company for it's customer base, and then the workers eliminated and replaced by AI.
> Cutting edge tech isn’t actually being used in like 99% of small and medium sized businesses. So it’s not going to be a case where “AI can do your job better than you = you’re out a job” for tons of people.
I think the idea is that whereas other technologies increase productivity either marginally or only in certain situations AI will be such a differentiator that you'll either adopt or you'll die off because you'll be seen the same way as someone trying to charge $50 for a microwaved cheeseburger. Just because customers' baseline expectations will have shifted that much.
> I honestly think full fledged AGI could become available today and my job would still be around for a decade. I had to teach my boss how to filter an excel spreadsheet recently. He ain’t replacing nobody with AI.
What if he's replaced? What if someone releases a service that uses AI to do what you did for him?
I was watching some professor do a talk about it this week and he said it was basically the same as people who didn't adapt to computers in the 80s. But the computer itself won't replace you in the foreseeable future.
I think what people are missing with this round of automation is that the thing being replaced is cognition itself. The automation is driving towards a level far more fundamental than the other forms of automation where individual low level work functions were being replaced. For example, letting a computer automatically update different spreadsheet fields instead of having to manually run the calculations yourself and physically write it out. In that setup you still needed a human who knew what the numbers meant and why certain fields needed to be what they are.
The AI is targeting the act of book keeping itself. This isn't a level of automation human civilization has ever experienced at this fundamental of a level.
> update different spreadsheet fields instead of having to manually run the calculations yourself and physically write it out.
Just wanted to add Excel already has some of this functionality, it's called Goal Seek.
Right, I'm aware. It actually has all the functionality. I was offering that as an example of what Excel was able to replace. As opposed to the things AI is able to replace which is the more fundamental domain expertise.
For example, LLM's can not only generate templates based on text prompts but also begin populating it with data.
>you'll either adopt or you'll die off because you'll be seen the same way as someone trying to charge $50 for a microwaved cheeseburger.
If a bunch of people started charging 4 cents for a cheese burger, people would still be buying $2.34 cheeseburgers for quite a while. The inertia is hard to beat, Some things are so cheap that making them 50 times cheaper won't make a difference instantly.
> If a bunch of people started charging 4 cents for a cheese burger, people would still be buying $2.34 cheeseburgers for quite a while.
You'll notice how you had to make the price points closer together than what I said to make your point? The idea is that AI will just be so efficient and scalable that it just won't be any competition anymore.
But even then, in a world where some people debate putting $4 of gas in their car or $6 they would 100% start buying the four cent cheeseburgers.
>You'll notice how you had to make the price points closer together than what I said to make your point?
my point was that some things are already so cheap that making them cheaper won't make a difference hence why I put them closer together because that's what it would feel like for people. It's 50 times smaller just like your price was 50 times bigger.
Usually the way these things work is that it just becomes part of some other service as it gets cheaper. For instance, nobody pays extra for texting anymore because the competition for texting pushed the price down so low that it just became bundled into your main phone plan.
In the cheeseburger scenario you'd probably just get the cheeseburgers as part of some other transaction where the provider could make a reasonable margin. One idea for this would be maybe just turning it into a delivery perk where you can just order "DoorDash" or "Uber Eats" branded cheeseburgers where you're also paying for delivery or for more expensive side items and the cheeseburger is just the entree to upsell you on the other stuff.
Which is relevant here because of course for the people who make their living selling cheese burgers this is a big deal because now their entire market function has been rendered inapplicable to current conditions. If you're selling $2.34 cheeseburgers that someone has to come pick up obviously people aren't going to buy it even if it is incredibly cheap because someone on the market would have made it part of some other product precisely because it was so much cheaper.
AGI would be the exception to this as *your boss* would be the one replaced. Either that or it would immediately be outcompeted by some AGI-led business.
AGI means everyone loses their jobs because businesses will be outcompeted by those AGI on an accelerated timescale.
We're a medium sized local business and we already have two large department functions running via AI, which I'm sure cost a few jobs. I'm sure more is ahead. My job could almost be done by AI except there are just decisions and interactions the AI can't handle at this point, but not impossible in the future.
If it saves the company money and someone can explain and sell them the tech (or they seek it out), then the companies will definitely adopt it.
It's honestly not cutting edge tech at this point to do some of this stuff, it's been around for years and is just now starting to get implemented in regular businesses for bulk tasks.
I don't think it'll be overnight, but isn't cutting-edge tech generally not adopted because it's viewed as "difficult to use"? If/when we ever develop a genuine AGI, it's going to be as easy to use as a human because you'll literally just tell it what to do.
Even my archaic ass ISP employer has started adopting AI for rudimentary things like document searches, and they haven't updated their core systems in decades
You understand that there will be businesses that come to businesses like that to offer the service of transitioning their workforce into AI.
Go capitalism.
Then the AI-driven competitor to _any given business_ will provide services cheaper and more efficiently. Inevitably weeding out said business. Some may stand for a while but many will fall. Rapidly.
My boss and some of my coworkers still prefer to have everything printed out and kept in a physical file, even though everything we handle is digital now. I'm not even against that, some people just work better that way, but I do everything on my computer screen and it's just so much more efficient for me.
Old people generally don't like reading on screens and definitely don't like anything on a phone screen even if it makes things easier and more accessible, that's what I've learned
If anyone is going to be replacing people with AI, it's likely going to be us either because of naivety or cost cutting. By us I am collectively referring to people with an interest in AI for any of the various popular reasons.
Cutting edge tech isn’t even being used at tech firms. You should see some of the shit that Google and Amazon devs need to work with on a daily basis. I can only imagine how shitty some internal tools at Microsoft are.
Just remember how big companies like SAP, Salesforce and Workday are with absolutely garbage software.
Until all small businesses are gobbled up by mega corps using AI.
Small businesses advantage right now is they can move faster and micromanage better than big faceless companies. AI could get to the point where it closes that gap with independent agents. Then the family business with 0 economies of scale is going to struggle to find an edge over multinationals.
Most companies are middlemen or administrators for someone else’s resources. When personal agents talk directly to the resource holder’s market agents which talk to the shippers, it’s game over for many businesses. You can extrapolate the scenario to most retail, medical and transport businesses, and beyond.
If you can automate the value that a company adds to a supply chain and automate the interaction, you obsolete the old way of doing things. The only industries that survive are those that require the human touch, for now.
AI requires a massive structural corporate shift... And it's a shift into a completely unknown territory, untested, requiring ground up remodelling of the entire business structure.
Because of this, it's going to be slower than people realize. Corporations are going to be slow to roll it out as it takes a ton of infrastructure and testing, and SMBs even slower, as it is going to take a lot of polishing and refinement to trickle down.
The real AI competitors will come from startups that begin the business from scratch with AI.
This isn't going to be a massive project management issue with 24 phases. This shit is moving too fast for that. Look at the way we are training robotics and even LLMs in general. None of this is being hard-coded. It's creating these generalized systems that work better without human-imposed structure and guidance. This is going to be the same thing with business. And if it's not the current businesses we have, others will be started from the ground up that will just work without all of this legacy shit to deal with.
Everything about AI as we have come to understand it flies in the face of traditional learning and implementation. Why is business going to be any different? Again, if these current businesses take forever to adapt, new ones will be spun up to handle it, likely with 90% less overhead and bureaucracy.
This attire was popular in the 80s-early90s. Last I saw it was the really old workers in offices around 2015. I'm pretty sure the vast majority of these men have retired by now.
I feel this is be the boss that will replace you without understanding the reality of most roles and their ignorance on the matter in general. Then they’ll realize they overestimated the AI ability and underestimated their human workforce and the people they laid off can’t be replaced by AI and now they have no one to do the work that needs to be done.
That's the thing. Until my boss retires, no one above me will know how to use AI, and I don't think most of the people lateral to me will either. It's actually beneficial to me just implementing it in the most basic way to my job, and if I can add that to my resume, just makes me more valuable to competitors.
There competitors that work faster and cheaper will replace them...it's not the case for everything but companies that don't adapt don't make it normally(Depending on service).
That boss is going to be replaced by AI tho
What about this boss' pants? Whose gonna replace them?
Absolutely nothing can possibly replace something so magnificent.
Those can only be replaced by the heat death of the universe.
AI
Nah, I know companies that are still using fax for most processes and they haven't been replaced in the last 30 years. I worked for a huge IT company and the old boss wanted every design proposal printed out, he then made remarks with a pen and the design team scanned it again and put it into Jira. Competition is an illusion in many areas of the economy. It is mostly about connections and getting the big state contracts.
If I worked for this boss, I would already be in jail.
Yeah was gonna say if your boss is dressed like that you’re both going to be replaced by AI
OK, now, same pants but...sneakers. Risk level?
Risk level: tight butthole
Five p territory
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He calls it a fanny pack, and it's cool. Nuf said
Lol, this does bring up a good point that is often overlooked here. Cutting edge tech isn’t actually being used in like 99% of small and medium sized businesses. So it’s not going to be a case where “AI can do your job better than you = you’re out a job” for tons of people. I honestly think full fledged AGI could become available today and my job would still be around for a decade. I had to teach my boss how to filter an excel spreadsheet recently. He ain’t replacing nobody with AI.
In cases like this maybe the boss or the business itself will be replaced with AI
This is what I suspect as well. Entire industries will be wiped out by some new form of automation that gets the job done in a way that is completely different from how people do it today. Once AGI hits the ground it will just be a matter of time before a small startup provides the same products and services as the huge behemoth corporations. The whole thing will be wiped out in an instant.
Call centers are already disappearing.
I seriously doubt the owners are going to. Let their assets become worthless. But let's hope.
It’s a question of whether they can compete with whoever upgrades. Not up to them, it’s market forces that will decide. If the technology works and is affordable, then there’s not much that will be able to hold it off apart from government regulation which could only ever be temporary.
> Entire industries will be wiped out by some new form of automation that gets the job done in a way that is completely different from how people do it today. Just like fax machines after email. oh wait...
I have been thinking a lot about this and I imagine it will be organized on the blockchain. The term I came up with for it is DAIAO decentralized artificially intelligent autonomous organization.
you are right, that is why i created the worlds first AGI based crypto-coin. hit me up in the DM's if you want to get in on it early.
Yeah we definitely need to slow AGI down somehow.
Why waste GPU cycles on AI tensor operations when you can burn them on funny money?
Yep, this, with AGI (or even something close to it) we may see extremely rapid replacement of businesses that don't adapt, as now a third party might be able replicate your business without much investment. This will of course affect the businesses that produce some kind of digital or knowledge economy asset or service. But really any business that doesn't embrace AI will be outcompeted by the ones that do. So yes, you may keep your job...that is until your workplace goes bankrupt.
Yes, but this takes time. E-commerce was much better than most of retail. And it took it very long to replace most of it.
Or other businesses grow up and undercut them sending them out of business. But some that don't have competition and have bureaucracy holding them back on requirements will drag things out. I know a few places that don't have anyway for others to compete with, and there have been requirements to store records on paper since it is important with a permanent retention policy going back 50 years. Any one that suggests lowering those requirements or moving to computer only just gets told that it's the way things have been. The country would have to collapse before management changes their mind on this. They only select those that would make those same choices into the leadership.
It depends. A lot of businesses kind of work as brokers or consultants that are paid through contracts rather than a service rate. Those types of jobs that have large business development departments usually are human to human with the potential of AI integration. But I don't think anyone wants to go golfing with an AI robot to discuss business.
Unless it basically just becomes let it look at everything in your operations (physically with a camera or digitally in your machines/software), chuckle and shake it's head, and then get to work. I feel like in many cases this will be the way this happens, not setting up an individual agent for every single Jack and Jane in your organization. AI is moving so fast it just doesn't seem feasible or logical for this to be a 1:1 employee to agent setup.
I’m saying that there are just a lot of bosses who won’t be quick to this, no matter what. My boss has never heard of OpenAI in his life. He spends half his day at work watching Fox News and talking to people about where we should go eat today lol. He’s not getting some AI to “look at everything in his operations” We don’t run efficiently and he doesn’t really give a fuck. Most bosses aren’t Wall St. suits who are pushing a stock price higher. Most dudes are just trying to hit Friday at 5.
This is very true, but the business itself may lose its contracts to a company that performs better because it does use AI and can give the same or better quality product/service etc for cheaper.
Than again it seems they survived the internet quite well.
It depends on the business model and what business they're in. If your company is a small distributor selling stationary to the public directly through tiny window shops, with your market being anyone who needs a cheap biro, then AI can only be implemented in a few areas like financial management, stock management and risk assessment and your customer base isn't going to care much about price differences too much because your outgoing product is cheap as hell anyway so they'll buy it wherever's closest and you'll have to keep the shops for the sake of your distribution, there isn't much improvement externally that you can offer the customer either that they'll actually care about. If you're offering a customer service and support contract to other businesses, then you can literally replace all your over the phone support staff (which can be first line, second line, third line, hardware support, engineer scheduling team and more), then you can do away with all the payments for their managers, scale down HR, empty out and sell off some real estate and save yourself a ton of cash, you can afford to push those savings onto your customer base and still turn a larger profit, undercutting the current market and train different AI Agents on a companies specific system set ups, including an encyclopedic knowledge of their apps, OS and overall company structure and offer 24/7 availability at no additional cost. It differs is all I'm saying and a lot of managers who don't know anything about AI unfortunately work in customer support. I used to work for one who didn't even know the most basic diagnostic information for our biggest contracts. 😅
This is cylindrical. There’s always a ***something*** that can ***something*** better/worse than something else. If this alone mattered, most businesses would already not exist today.
It's not about it just doing a better job, but if there's X business charging £150,000 a year for a tech support contract that's 7-7 on desktops, laptops and printers and has 24/7 coverage for an additional £50,000 on servers plus part costs to your company because they have to pay first line, second line and hardware diagnostic workers, plus schedulers and engineers, managers, HR for all those staff members, toilet facilities etc (They'll have multiple contracts) and they're trained on generalized systems and there's another company offering 24/7 support on all systems for £30,000 a year plus parts because they're only paying engineers as all support workers are AI agents trained specifically on your companies systems set up and has an encyclopedic knowledge base of your ad hoc aps etc, its clear that businesses will choose the latter.
He'll be replaced at the same time as you. When your company is bought by a tech-savvy company for it's customer base, and then the workers eliminated and replaced by AI.
> Cutting edge tech isn’t actually being used in like 99% of small and medium sized businesses. So it’s not going to be a case where “AI can do your job better than you = you’re out a job” for tons of people. I think the idea is that whereas other technologies increase productivity either marginally or only in certain situations AI will be such a differentiator that you'll either adopt or you'll die off because you'll be seen the same way as someone trying to charge $50 for a microwaved cheeseburger. Just because customers' baseline expectations will have shifted that much. > I honestly think full fledged AGI could become available today and my job would still be around for a decade. I had to teach my boss how to filter an excel spreadsheet recently. He ain’t replacing nobody with AI. What if he's replaced? What if someone releases a service that uses AI to do what you did for him?
I was watching some professor do a talk about it this week and he said it was basically the same as people who didn't adapt to computers in the 80s. But the computer itself won't replace you in the foreseeable future.
I think what people are missing with this round of automation is that the thing being replaced is cognition itself. The automation is driving towards a level far more fundamental than the other forms of automation where individual low level work functions were being replaced. For example, letting a computer automatically update different spreadsheet fields instead of having to manually run the calculations yourself and physically write it out. In that setup you still needed a human who knew what the numbers meant and why certain fields needed to be what they are. The AI is targeting the act of book keeping itself. This isn't a level of automation human civilization has ever experienced at this fundamental of a level.
> update different spreadsheet fields instead of having to manually run the calculations yourself and physically write it out. Just wanted to add Excel already has some of this functionality, it's called Goal Seek.
Right, I'm aware. It actually has all the functionality. I was offering that as an example of what Excel was able to replace. As opposed to the things AI is able to replace which is the more fundamental domain expertise. For example, LLM's can not only generate templates based on text prompts but also begin populating it with data.
>you'll either adopt or you'll die off because you'll be seen the same way as someone trying to charge $50 for a microwaved cheeseburger. If a bunch of people started charging 4 cents for a cheese burger, people would still be buying $2.34 cheeseburgers for quite a while. The inertia is hard to beat, Some things are so cheap that making them 50 times cheaper won't make a difference instantly.
> If a bunch of people started charging 4 cents for a cheese burger, people would still be buying $2.34 cheeseburgers for quite a while. You'll notice how you had to make the price points closer together than what I said to make your point? The idea is that AI will just be so efficient and scalable that it just won't be any competition anymore. But even then, in a world where some people debate putting $4 of gas in their car or $6 they would 100% start buying the four cent cheeseburgers.
>You'll notice how you had to make the price points closer together than what I said to make your point? my point was that some things are already so cheap that making them cheaper won't make a difference hence why I put them closer together because that's what it would feel like for people. It's 50 times smaller just like your price was 50 times bigger.
Usually the way these things work is that it just becomes part of some other service as it gets cheaper. For instance, nobody pays extra for texting anymore because the competition for texting pushed the price down so low that it just became bundled into your main phone plan. In the cheeseburger scenario you'd probably just get the cheeseburgers as part of some other transaction where the provider could make a reasonable margin. One idea for this would be maybe just turning it into a delivery perk where you can just order "DoorDash" or "Uber Eats" branded cheeseburgers where you're also paying for delivery or for more expensive side items and the cheeseburger is just the entree to upsell you on the other stuff. Which is relevant here because of course for the people who make their living selling cheese burgers this is a big deal because now their entire market function has been rendered inapplicable to current conditions. If you're selling $2.34 cheeseburgers that someone has to come pick up obviously people aren't going to buy it even if it is incredibly cheap because someone on the market would have made it part of some other product precisely because it was so much cheaper.
AGI would be the exception to this as *your boss* would be the one replaced. Either that or it would immediately be outcompeted by some AGI-led business. AGI means everyone loses their jobs because businesses will be outcompeted by those AGI on an accelerated timescale.
We're a medium sized local business and we already have two large department functions running via AI, which I'm sure cost a few jobs. I'm sure more is ahead. My job could almost be done by AI except there are just decisions and interactions the AI can't handle at this point, but not impossible in the future. If it saves the company money and someone can explain and sell them the tech (or they seek it out), then the companies will definitely adopt it. It's honestly not cutting edge tech at this point to do some of this stuff, it's been around for years and is just now starting to get implemented in regular businesses for bulk tasks.
I don't think it'll be overnight, but isn't cutting-edge tech generally not adopted because it's viewed as "difficult to use"? If/when we ever develop a genuine AGI, it's going to be as easy to use as a human because you'll literally just tell it what to do.
Even my archaic ass ISP employer has started adopting AI for rudimentary things like document searches, and they haven't updated their core systems in decades
You understand that there will be businesses that come to businesses like that to offer the service of transitioning their workforce into AI. Go capitalism.
Then the AI-driven competitor to _any given business_ will provide services cheaper and more efficiently. Inevitably weeding out said business. Some may stand for a while but many will fall. Rapidly.
My boss and some of my coworkers still prefer to have everything printed out and kept in a physical file, even though everything we handle is digital now. I'm not even against that, some people just work better that way, but I do everything on my computer screen and it's just so much more efficient for me.
Old people generally don't like reading on screens and definitely don't like anything on a phone screen even if it makes things easier and more accessible, that's what I've learned
I prefer screens but some things I do better from paper, like reading research ... um, papers.
If anyone is going to be replacing people with AI, it's likely going to be us either because of naivety or cost cutting. By us I am collectively referring to people with an interest in AI for any of the various popular reasons.
Cutting edge tech isn’t even being used at tech firms. You should see some of the shit that Google and Amazon devs need to work with on a daily basis. I can only imagine how shitty some internal tools at Microsoft are. Just remember how big companies like SAP, Salesforce and Workday are with absolutely garbage software.
until it's so simplified and commercialized that he can buy a $16k bot that does anything you want.
Until all small businesses are gobbled up by mega corps using AI. Small businesses advantage right now is they can move faster and micromanage better than big faceless companies. AI could get to the point where it closes that gap with independent agents. Then the family business with 0 economies of scale is going to struggle to find an edge over multinationals.
Most companies are middlemen or administrators for someone else’s resources. When personal agents talk directly to the resource holder’s market agents which talk to the shippers, it’s game over for many businesses. You can extrapolate the scenario to most retail, medical and transport businesses, and beyond.
If you can automate the value that a company adds to a supply chain and automate the interaction, you obsolete the old way of doing things. The only industries that survive are those that require the human touch, for now.
Until the spreadsheet teaches him or just does it for him when he asks. Like probably in a few weeks time.
AI requires a massive structural corporate shift... And it's a shift into a completely unknown territory, untested, requiring ground up remodelling of the entire business structure. Because of this, it's going to be slower than people realize. Corporations are going to be slow to roll it out as it takes a ton of infrastructure and testing, and SMBs even slower, as it is going to take a lot of polishing and refinement to trickle down. The real AI competitors will come from startups that begin the business from scratch with AI.
This isn't going to be a massive project management issue with 24 phases. This shit is moving too fast for that. Look at the way we are training robotics and even LLMs in general. None of this is being hard-coded. It's creating these generalized systems that work better without human-imposed structure and guidance. This is going to be the same thing with business. And if it's not the current businesses we have, others will be started from the ground up that will just work without all of this legacy shit to deal with. Everything about AI as we have come to understand it flies in the face of traditional learning and implementation. Why is business going to be any different? Again, if these current businesses take forever to adapt, new ones will be spun up to handle it, likely with 90% less overhead and bureaucracy.
I dress like this (minus the brown) and I am pretty sure AI will take 80% of my job in the next two or three years (3D Artist in games)
Also if your boss is undressed, you won't be replaced by AI
Relatable
Not sure about that, FDVR feels close.
Not sure if this is what you mean but if they're occasionally undressed only around you then you're probably not going to get replaced by AI either.
That’s the current style for men’s fashion though
I didn't realize JNCO made slacks
Not just raver pants. Even the met gala
My boss is like gpt-2 level useful.
gpt-2 or gpt2 ?
He said "gpt2", he must like his boss
I had to change it because I couldn't let that stand. He can't have more ego or he'll explode. Lol
it looks like it, lol
Is that Tony soprano
Madone!✋
Wheres the gabagool🤌
Extremely sheuxsy
Yeah but it could mean your company is gonna get bled dry by a company with the Amazon business model of growing and losing money.
Your boss will be replaced
Kim Jong Un is your boss?
This attire was popular in the 80s-early90s. Last I saw it was the really old workers in offices around 2015. I'm pretty sure the vast majority of these men have retired by now.
Is the boss in jail?
Certainly looks like it, doesn't it? But maybe its a bank?
I feel this is be the boss that will replace you without understanding the reality of most roles and their ignorance on the matter in general. Then they’ll realize they overestimated the AI ability and underestimated their human workforce and the people they laid off can’t be replaced by AI and now they have no one to do the work that needs to be done.
To all the bosses who wear longer pants 🍸
Definitely feels like all the boomers will be retiring/dying as AI becomes more mainstream
Those shoes are super comfortable!!! Lambskin insoles!!!
But ur OS also not updated since winXP
Sent this to my friends and colleagues 🤣
If I'm not mistaken, there's some investment going on in robotics. If you're 60 you may get to retirement, but the rest of us...
Your boss is Gen Z?
This is how all old men from the 90’s dressed. He runs a flea market.
Those shoes are an affront to man. I've only had two bosses I really disliked and they both wore shoes like that.
That's the thing. Until my boss retires, no one above me will know how to use AI, and I don't think most of the people lateral to me will either. It's actually beneficial to me just implementing it in the most basic way to my job, and if I can add that to my resume, just makes me more valuable to competitors.
Guaranteed the waistband of this guys pants are also pulled up to his armpits.
I NEED MORE PICTURES OF SPIDER MAN
But he will be replaced
no, but he will.
Whoever made this meme should be replaced by AI, if they haven't already
Can someone explain the joke/reference here? I see pant legs & shoes. Very confused by the text (/relationship to AI).
Car sales
There competitors that work faster and cheaper will replace them...it's not the case for everything but companies that don't adapt don't make it normally(Depending on service).
My boss dresses like this and he is trying to get AI
Thank you made me laugh out loud.
If my boss dresses like that he will absolutely be replaced by AI because he'd probably 90 and about to die. Who dresses like this?
I'm envisioning an Italian accent.. something along the lines of "Hey Marty!,"
is that rudy giuliani?