Tech vendors start saying the quiet part out loud – do enterprises really need all that headcount?

cross-posted from: https://ponder.cat/post/1081067

In the past, the rhetoric was all about increasing productivity. Now headcount is coming into focus. Companies like OpenAI have begun to openly acknowledge the implications: why recruit more people when there’s an AI for that? And do you really need all those employees?

OpenAI did not respond to a request for comment by The Register. Microsoft did not wish to make a statement on the record. ®

They’re not even trying to hide it now

  • Skyrmir@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    Yep, there’s a path to a post scarcity world due to AI, but a canyon of dystopian nightmare between here and there. Economists are going to be gathering some amazingly interesting data over the next few decades. It’s just going to really suck to be part of that data.